Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legend surrounding Radcliffe's ivory towers and its bespectacled inmates must yield to the pressure of figures, cold, exact figures... If Radcliffe has overwhelmed the sneers of a decade, and emerged from a chrysalis of contempt as the most alluring fata Morgana for several thousand potential bachelors. what use caution...
...eager citizens' conference approved the jail sentences of 83 prisoners, suspended sentence on two, slapped heavier sentences on 18, and ordered the execution of nine who previously had only been given jail terms. Said Peking's Peoples Daily approvingly: "Not only were the judgments made more exact but the masses' conception of being the masters was also increased by this method...
...that a show of British paintings was "destitute ... of all spirituality, all ideality"-then made an after-dinner speech declaring that he had been "most forcibly struck [by] the high tone of spirituality and ideality" of the paintings. Concludes Pearson: "He clearly felt that he had better say the exact opposite of what he considered quite obvious, in the hope that intelligent people would appreciate the irony." This explanation suggests, in Author Pearson, a lack of appreciation both of the elements of irony and the demands of politics. Dizzy had no such lack. When a Tory snooper collected evidence...
...many of the attributes. "Poleri sings from where Caruso used to -around the waistline. His voice comes up with depth and timbre. But it's just as important that he's filled with limitless ambition to do the right job, the good job, to get across the exact effect. And he listens to advice. Will he become truly great? He ought to unless he's mishandled during the next two or three years...
...displayed on one cathode-ray screen as part of a glowing map that measures distance and direction from the ship. Moving targets can be tracked across the scope as on an ordinary radar screen. Another cathode-ray tube, which measures distance, also helps to identify the nature and exact position of the target...