Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college, La Grange (Female) College, La Grange, Ga., which celebrated its centenary in 1936, the walls of the old Prayer Hallare lined with pictures of long-dead maidens in the prescribed uniforms they wore during the war. For those four tragic years, and long afterward, they dressed in exact grey Confederate uniforms, with braided basques, bell skirts instead of breeches, a jaunty forage cap perched upon their curls. . . . But make no mistake; these ingenues' botany textbooks were written in Latin...
...Atlantic approaches to the U. S. and Canada. Just eleven weeks before the Navy had been promised the new bases from Great Britain in trade for 50 overage destroyers. By last week it was not only using two of them but also had reached agreement with Britain upon the exact sites for U. S. land plane, seaplane and naval bases on all but one of the New World islands and continental areas. The plans...
...Bahamas form a long archipelago, and Mariguana Island, where the Navy will have a base, is 375 miles from Nassau. The exact nature of the base has not been decided. Only at Trinidad, perhaps a major spot in the defense, had no site for a U. S. base been agreed...
...proposed to do its part toward raising the standards of journalism by taking promising young reporters and editorial writers from every corner of the nation and exposing them for a year to all known data and theory on the practices of the newspaper world. This has been the exact course followed by the Foundation, with obvious success for those "chosen few." However, it is the personal success of these men which has lent some doubt about the ultimate practically of the scheme...
When Kamiya plots the rise and fall of the protoplasmic force on a graph, he gets elegant curves. These excite the admiration of Seifriz, who exclaims: "Did you ever see such perfect curves? Nothing like it has ever been done before. It makes biology an exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...