Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Henry refused to reveal the exact number of last year's applications, if is estimated that at least 3,200 came to his office...
Yale admission directors said a similar rise was in evidence there, then declined to give the exact figures, as they expected more applications within the month...
Miss Gabor's exact time schedule for Saturday has not yet been determined. However, it is known that her plane will land in the Square early in the afternoon...
...spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed...
...sometimes from hour to hour. Newspapers of both sides report minor frontier clashes as major engagements, so that invasion seems imminent. Politicians remind their listeners of those terror-filled days in 1947, when 12 million Hindus and Moslems were uprooted from their homes, and perhaps another million (the exact figure may never be known) were massacred under conditions of unbelievable brutality. In five years since partition, neither country has solved the problems of this mass dislocation: each has millions-perhaps 8,000,000 between them-penned in refugee camps, a serious health problem and a drain on slender resources...