Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size of the problem, partly out of his own experience, partly because he has a talent for clarity. He is also as honest as only a wise man can be: he spent his youth being kicked out of copy writers' offices in Sears, Roebuck, fighting for exact and truthful description of all merchandise. And because truth is beauty, even in lawnmowers, Sears catalogues have always read well...
...intrigue and the fulfillment of an old vow. One character in the tale was a North Carolina runt, now vanished into a historical footnote; another was a great American jurist who liked yellow-backed French novels and claiity in the law, and who had an eye both for the exact word and for a well-turned ankle...
Over 60 per cent of last year's graduating Reserve Officers are now on active duty, Colonel Jay estimated last night. He is at present engaged in determining the exact number of graduates of the past five years who are now in uniform...
...design and purpose of Men of Good Will, in this volume as in others, is clear and noble. Its handling is so serious, exact and ample, that it is extremely difficult, page by page, to sense any lack. Romains is highly adequate to his great task: his adequacies hang on the walls of his work like so many diplomas. The only question is whether adequacy is enough. An undertaking of such grandeur as this requires something that no amount of intelligence, intention and industry can combine to earn: a corresponding grandeur of treatment which French genius, specializing in minor perfections...
...Connor; of influenza; in Miami Beach. Chemist Ellis' inventions gave birth to more than 100,000 compounds. He developed Standard Oil's tube-&-tank process of cracking oil, found the formula for cheap acetone to fireproof airplane wings in World War I, made plastics an exact and lucrative science...