Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charts for history books and every other sort of map you can think of," he says, "but my whole aim in life has been to close the gap between map and land." To do this Raisz has developed a unique process of making landform maps, which show the exact physical nature of the land, from aerial photographs taken by specially-equipped Army planes. To date he has completed aerial landform maps of Canada and Arabia, and is at work on one of North Africa. Each one of these maps, which he does on contract for the Army, takes about...
After every census since 1790, Government mathematicians have been put to work on a problem calculated to burn the numbers off their slide rules. Its terms: if the country were a rigid plane, encumbered by nothing but its human population, and if every man, woman & child had exactly the same weight, at what point, if placed on a fulcrum, would it achieve exact balance? Object: to find the geographical center of U.S. population...
Blackmer said he hoped to have more prep-schools join the plan. Then he added a group of "selected boys" would be offered "a typical, pilot program" from school to college. The exact details will be decided in future meetings...
...further bulletin announced: "The King has gained strength during the day." For the time being no more details were issued by Palace authorities or Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, the 57-year-old Welsh chest specialist who performed the operation. Britons were still as much in the dark over the exact nature of the King's illness as they had been when the doctors first spoke of "structural changes" in his lung. The nature of the operation (resection is the removal of the whole or part of a lung) indicated the presence of either a growth (tumor or cancer...
...that's what I tell anyone who asks how tall I am. When I was in the Army, a Texan requested that I prove that his commander's 6 feet 4 inches was nothing. On the way over to the officer's quarters, he confidentially inquired of me my exact height. I replied, '5 feet, 17 inches.' The Texan looked shocked, then smiled, 'Oh, come now, you're taller than that...