Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's lots to do if your book isn't interesting. They have the Farnsworth room, which is an exact replica of a 19th century library, with all the old books and everything. But they have some Sinclair Lewis novels if you want to read the up-to-date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment...
...Hans Selye announced his theory of how stress causes disease through the "general adaptation syndrome" (TIME. Oct. 9, 1950), physicians have recognized that people can get serious illnesses simply from the "stress" put on the system by emotional pressures, shock, physical fatigue, or even bad eating habits. But the exact causes and effects of stress, and how it works on different subjects, are still matters of tantalizing speculation...
Nash and Hudson have agreed to merge. Boards of both firms have already approved the sale of Hudson to the Nash-Kelvinator Corp. through a stock transfer, but lawyers are still hammering out the exact terms...
Maid service, however, will be continued on a partial basis next year and through the spring of '56. Although the exact details of future service will not be known until after today's negotiations, it is expected that the present five-day service will continue without change during the spring term...
...Exact heading: northwest by J4 north, i.e., 318° true. *The first Nautilus, built by Robert Fulton in 1800, was named after the paper nautilus, a mollusk that was mistakenly thought to cruise the surface of the sea with fleshy sails, and to submerge at will. Most famed Nautilus (named after Fulton's) was the prodigious sea raider commanded by Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. † Natural uranium from which some of the nonfissionable U-238 has been removed, leaving a larger proportion of fissionable 0-235. *The story of Rickover...