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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with melody. Music is beautifully supplied on & off the screen by 80 members of a Welsh choir discovered in Los Angeles. When these singers were moved into the picture's expensive Welsh village in the California hills, some of the elders thought it was supposed to be an exact replica of their home towns in Wales. They made no bones about complaining of inaccuracies in the buildings, of names on tombstones of people who had never lived in their town. According to Director Ford, one, whose brother is buried in Wales, found his name on a tombstone and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...erratic, Painter Kokoschka continually complains that he can't find attractive women models who have souls. Once in the early '20s, Painter Kokcschka was so discouraged trying to find a woman he liked that he commissioned a manufacturer to make him a life-size doll, giving exact specifications as to form, color of hair, eyes, etc. When the doll arrived, Expressionist Kokoschka was so disappointed he took it out into the back yard and burned it, meanwhile fending off a squad of policemen who were convinced he was removing traces of a murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Saints and Demons | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

However, complete or exact information about these possibilities is not to be had. In the first place, the Army is ignorant of the content of Harvard courses, while the local instructors are equally vague about the requirements of various Army departments. In the second place, the rules concerning some fields are hazy and flexible, so that it is up to the individual to convince the Army that he has had enough training to make him a more useful man than the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to be Vital | 11/5/1941 | See Source »

...asked: 1) to agree to accept as final the recommendations of the entire Board; or 2) to choose a joint board from both sides to settle the matter; and if that failed, select an arbitrator whose decision would be flat and final. In any event, the Board proposed to exact from both sides the promise to continue production of soft coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis' Great Defiance | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...What is the exact relationship between Anuradha and Rafio Guznavi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Such A Thing | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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