Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed a resolution, retroactive to March 1, 1803, making Ohio a state. There was no real doubt about Ohio's legitimacy (although a congressional oversight left a technical doubt about the exact day on which the state was admitted to the Union); the resolution was a publicity stunt by Cleveland's noisy Representative George Bender to attract attention to Ohio's sesquicentennial celebration this year...
...brother of the engineer and manufacturer . . . What we need is a unity . . . An old New England town, with its white buildings, has a unity and kinship, but when you look closely, every single one of these white buildings differs from all the rest. A house with 100,000 exact duplicates is not the answer . . . The machine must be adapted to the individual.. . . Machines can cut costs and improve quality by making millions of prefabricated parts, and yet the houses built from these parts can look enough different so that when you come [home] from a cocktail party...
...week he went to Dr. Baumer and what do they find but a zist on the gooms. He couldn't hardly eat no Sunday dinner. A nice goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that make 7½ Cents, slight as it is, an oddly...
...pump drew in the blood. Another speeded it to an oxygen chamber, where it flowed over a set of metal grids like the plates in a storage battery. Electronic controls kept the flow rate just right, made sure that oxygen was added and carbon dioxide taken away. in exact amounts, and even kept the blood at the proper degree of acidity. A third pump sent the refreshed blood back into an artery above the left side of Cecelia's heart...
...College has awarded 483 scholarships to students from 46 states and four foreign countries. Although the exact size of the Class of '57 is not yet known, it will be no larger than 1150 students, by order of the Corporation...