Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabins, both professional musicians, were careful not to push Michael; they even tried to hold him back a bit. But as father Rabin puts it, his talent was "too big." At three, Michael proved his absolute pitch by casually identifying the exact tones of steam whistles and automobile horns. At seven, he started piano lessons ("very good too"). Then, at the house of a friend, he found a half-size violin. He asked for it and got it. By his eighth birthday, he was practicing four hours...
...best, Marianne Moore writes poems for the eye as well as the ear. Arranged in exact syllabic patterns, and sprinkled with subtle internal rhymes, they are difficult to read aloud, and often sound a bit prosy. But on the page, as in The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing, her style is as elegant as a minuet. The mind, she writes...
...committee will announce the exact topic and a list of desired speakers next Thursday. The local NSA chapter, judging from a similar conference held last year, expects nearly 1,000 to turn out for the event tentatively scheduled for March...
...University received slightly under $2,000,000 in gifts during last summer, it was announced yesterday. The exact sum, $1,762,000, was over $1,000,00 under the donations during the same period in 1950. But more significant was the lack of large gifts from individuals and the dependence on foundations...
...What, then, is the importance of modern science for the argument for the existence of God based on the mutability of the cosmos? By means of exact and detailed research . . . it has considerably broadened and deepened the empirical foundation on which this argument rests . . . It has, besides, followed the course and the direction of cosmic developments and . . . pointed to their beginning in time some five billion years ago. Thus, with that concreteness which is characteristic of physical proofs, it has confirmed the contingency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction as to the epoch when the cosmos came...