Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that the law would keep them in school. Nor did they hesitate to tell "the teach" just what they thought of her. Such students, says Author Dunn, "know your exact place and sooner or later make it known to you. I once requested a student to take off his coat while in class, and he answered precisely: 'You can ask me to take off my jacket, but you can't tell...
Kenneth Bainbridge, chairman of the Physics Department and professor of Physics, said that previous attempts to have tutorial in physics used the time and money of the physics faculty inefficiently. In addition, he pointed out that the exact sciences like physics "don't lend themselves to group discussions as well as the more subjective sciences...
...Egyptian Ahmes, the Moonborn, described the almost exact formula for determining the area of a circle. By using tables of squared numbers,* the Mesopotamians learned to multiply without the use of an abacus. Pythagoras, who was the leader of a secret mathematical and religious sect, stated his famous theorem about right triangles (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines...
...maintained that insufficient evidence existed as to the exact subject of inquiry and that even if it did, the committee did not have the power to compel answers to its questions...
...exact subject of the Senators' testimony is uncertain. Although they were the participating members of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Investigations Subcommittees when Kamin was called before it, they were not present in Boston when Kamin refused to answer six questions McCarthy asked...