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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some industries it is not cost but quality of production that brings in automation. The airfoils of supersonic aircraft and guided missiles demand such close tolerance that the human hand is often incapable of milling and finishing to exact specifications. To end one time-wasting source of human error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Among the 80,000 ideographs in the Chinese language, none are charged with more meaning for the people of China today than Hsiao Mieh. In the abstract but exact language of ' China, Hsiao Mieh means "deprived of existence . . . done away with . . . otherwise disposed of." In the broader language of humanity, Hsiao Mieh today symbolizes the greatest planned massacre in the history of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High Tide of Terror | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...exact definition of such an attack, for purposes of this recommendation, shall be 'an act secretively done and subsequently denied...

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: Council Dismisses Thomson Charge, Advises New Recess | 2/28/1956 | See Source »

Although the exact Crimson lineup is not known, Wilson is likely to start Captain Warren Kantrowicz, like Canty, Dick Hurley, Bob Hastings, and Bob Barnett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Seeks First Win in 9 Games; Plays BC Tonight | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

Although Sparkman has not announced his exact topic, it will probably deal with the issues for the 1956 campaign, Pagter said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sparkman Cancels Today's Talk Here | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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