Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus, he was able to tell the exact year when the wood...
Over not only the Black Forest, but also the bosky Harz Mountains, the Grunewald near Berlin, woods in Thuringia, ranged bombers heavy with incendiaries. The crews could not be certain of exact objectives, but peppered certain marked areas with "nice little patches of fire." At least one crew knew it was near an objective, for Germans paid it the compliment of aiming Archies at its plane. Said the pilot: "You wouldn't normally expect a lot of guns to be cracking off at you from the middle of a forest...
Later in the week a convoyed line of big troop transports reached Egypt after an uneventful trip from Britain all the way around Africa, up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. The exact number of troops was not revealed, but unofficial dispatches spoke of "several thousand"-infantrymen, Australian aviators, nurses from Scotland and England, R. A. F. and naval reinforcements. Meantime Britain awaited the real Italian campaigns: against Egypt from Libya, against the Sudan from Ethiopia...
Fortnight ago Wendell Willkie had his portrait painted. He sat in Rushville, Ind. and Manhattan, never more than 40 minutes at a time, for a, total of two hours and a half. Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness." The man who painted him, lean, dapper, longish-haired John Doctoroff, exclaimed: "Oh, God, there was nothing so hard in my life. It was like painting a moving picture...
...exact causes of Bernard DeVoto's chronic exasperation eluded many people. Critic DeVoto claimed that it was his passion for straight thinking. Said he: "I have not objected to the use of abstractions but only to the use of abstractions in the illusion that they are bricks, girders, and tie bars. I have not objected to the use of theories but only to their use in ways that produce what are called higher truths. I have not objected to simplifications but only to the use of simplifications in order to satisfy the lust for oneness by denying facts, experience...