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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a new authorization by Congress, the Naval R.O.T.C. unit admitted 50 more freshmen than last year to its contract program. Although exact figures were not disclosed, it is known that considerably more than last year's 265 students are now in the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Air Force ROTC Doubles in Size; Army, Navy Grow | 9/27/1951 | See Source »

Four hundred star pictures are still en route here by sea, and Bok will now spend his time interpreting this and fresh data as it arrives. Exact information about the color and distribution of the stars in the southern Milky Way has been obtained with newly developed equipment, built here, and shipped to the University's most remote outpost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Discovers Holes in Cosmic Dust | 9/25/1951 | See Source »

...radio booth at the Stadium Saturday was enthusiastic. He had a little trouble with the exact player identification, but from his high vantage point he followed the general sweep of the game, and what he saw pleased...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/25/1951 | See Source »

...exact spot where a buried meteorite should be. The northern rim of the crater is higher than the others, so the meteorite probably slanted down from the south, burying itself under the granite slightly to the north of the crater. This evidence, added to the shape of the lake and the "ripples" in the granite around it, convinces Dr. Meen that the crater is meteoric. If it is, it is the largest interplanetary shell hole (more than two miles across) that anyone has yet discovered on the earth's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Buried Missile | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...thought is applied to action through decision. Giving students ideas without enabling them to draw conclusions is like giving them sharpened tools without teaching them what to do with them. There are many fields of inquiry in which it is possible to reach exact and certain results. As a matter of fact, it is impossible to reach exact or certain results in most of the important affairs of life...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

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