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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reports that flowed into Smithsonian headquarters in the first few days therefore did not give exact enough satellite locations to make calculation of an orbit possible. Punched cards were fed into the type 704 computers at MIT, lights flashed and dials lit up, but the machines were not satisfied and haughtily "rejected" the information...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Smithsonian Astronomers Keep Hectic Pace | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...Baker's personality, not the mechanics of the class-work, that influenced the young playwright. The exact nature of this influence is never defined, but merely referred to as there; it kept the student going. Baker was a sympathetic audience, a somewhat limited educational role...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...Ph.D. is bound to defy exact definition in terms of time. But yet need the time-factor be so very imprecise? Generally the Ph.D. takes at least four years to get; more often it takes six or seven, and not infrequently ten to fifteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Suggests Revisions of Ph.D. | 11/1/1957 | See Source »

...director, Barry Bartle, blocks well, and a few touches, such as Hilda sitting on a table in Act II, show exact thought and stagemanship. Whether he doesn't also overdirect details--Selznick's Act II entrance, or Hilda's sudden bursts of life--one cannot be sure...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Master Builder | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

Unless Constantine wished to mark the exact spot of a very holy place, argue the authors, he would not have gone to such enormous trouble, since level sites unencumbered by tombs lay close by. Clearly, the argument runs. Constantine wanted this location because he believed he was enshrining the grave of St. Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Petrine Puzzle | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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