Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although officials were hesitant about setting an exact date for the completion of the project in view of the difficulty of obtaining construction materials at the present time, the deposit library is expected to be ready for use some time in January...
...failure of the Department for Advanced Study, the Department of Mathematics, and Albert Einstein either to solve or partly solve the problem presumably has established the fact that its solution and partial solutions are difficult; but not in what determinably exact degree difficult, and which, and with reasonable certainty, is my objective. For this objective can be reached only with a solution of the problem and a measurement of all measurable factors involved in the work of its solving. Therefore, as a further supplementation of the reward in exercise of the spirit of sportsmanship which efforts of solving the problem...
...negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn in a deflationary period); could exact a tithe, a fifth, a half, as the price of safekeeping in a world where nothing was safe. For this purpose, even incomplete records could be of value. Probably not a handful of U.S. Government officials dreamed of so using the records last week...
Just as bewildered was the man at the pump. A message from Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes shed no light. Declaring that equitable "apportioning" should be done by filling-station operators so as to exact "as few hardships" as possible, he declared: "You can no more fail in [this task] than can a soldier, a sailor or a worker in a vital defense industry...
Policy. The foreign policy of unarmed countries follows an exact pattern: assorted appeasements, big talk, empty threats, copious quotations from international law, appeals to reason. To this natural policy Welles has made a more practical addition: a search for friends. He is obsessed with the gigantic destiny of this Hemisphere; is sure in his soul that in this time of crisis, in a terrible century, when the seas shrink and the Hemisphere grows, the U.S. must find its own vast place in world affairs. Thus he has worked with furious suavity to grapple the 20 Latin American nations...