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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile Memorial Day auto race, he wore a jaunty shamrock on his helmet, and he didn't give a tinker's dam for the auto racers' superstition that green is the devil's own color on the track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle-faced Flaherty, a truant from his Chicago taproom, felt sure that he had "the horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Irish Luck | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...exact date when the revolution started, no one can say for sure. The end of the last war is probably as good a Bastille as any, although most of the current changes in alumni affairs could be spotted back in the thirties. Everyone recognizes, however, that the trends have been gathering more and more force ever been since the 25th Reunion of the Class of '28. For it was at that Commencement, in June, 1953, that a Reunion Class member named Nathan M. Pusey took over as President of the University...

Author: By Samuel J. Walker, | Title: Harvard's Alumni: The Old Grad Grows Up | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

That was the moment and the look that Artist Koerner decided that he would try to catch for his portrait. Patiently, he persuaded Roberts to hold the pose hour after hour while he drew his wondrously exact pen sketches (see cut) and then put oil to canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Other minor changes in the department's overall curriculum, such as revisions of the bibliography, and the general examinations, are also under consideration. Final decisions and the exact wording of all changes for next year are expected soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Might Ease Honors Requirements | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...exact fate of his machines is unknown. He hopes to find a college somewhere, possibly Harvard, which would consent to conduct a test...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Skinner Machines Make Classroom Like Kitchen | 4/18/1956 | See Source »

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