Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Better Missiles. The biggest ram jet tested so far is 20 inches in diameter, but bigger ones are on the way. Exact details are a military secret, but Wright engineers are already talking about a monster (probably no bigger than an automobile) that will develop 75,000 h.p.-about one-third as much as the Queen Mary...
Critics would be hard put to match the justice of that, or of Gris's conclusion: "No matter, after all, one must paint as one is. My spirit is too exact to dirty a blue or twist a straight line...
...Royal Favor. Franck was born a Belgian. Like Mozart, he was the victim of a pushing father who insisted that the "exceptional boy" bring fame & fortune to the family by becoming a virtuoso pianist. When young Cesar began to teach, Franck pere drew up a table showing the exact time it should take Cesar to get from pupil to pupil, then back home again to his practice. When the young man insisted on composing as well as performing, father Franck brashly had Cesar dedicate his first published music to King Leopold I, hoping for Belgian royal favor. None came...
...managing editor of Greeley's Tribune and onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the Sun shone brighter than ever before or since, was famed as the "newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor...
...hardship of the present expansion. Few rooms are too crowded to be comfortable. In fact, some Housemasters found themselves pressuring students into deconverting. Instead of allowing students in the Houses to deconvert but encouraging them to take in students from the outside dormitories, House authorities have done the exact opposite...