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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council also modified its by-laws to include passages specifically stating the exact relationship of the Combined Charities Committee to the Council and listing the functions of the Committee. A third measure passed was the approval of a report recommending changes in the advising program...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Friday 4 p.m. Book Checkout Approved by Council, McNiff | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

...even with the rest of the Eastern League aiming for an upset over Harvard, the Crimson should fare no worse this season than it has in the past two. The squad is almost an exact duplicate of the 1951-52 team which won nine out of ten meets-only Captain Bob Stroud and back-stroker Hugh Hartwell were graduated...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

...symbolic overtones, it is no stiff, self-conscious allegory. It has a biting vitality and, at times, a macabre humor. The direction of René Clément, who adapted the story from François Boyer's 1950 novel Jeux Interdits, is as exact as a machine; it also has a brooding, dreamlike quality. Making their debuts as the two juvenile leads, blonde, fragile Brigitte Fossey and sturdy little Georges Poujouly are small, haunting figures, moving through a strange, sardonic tale of death that cries out at the same time with a fierce love of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1952 | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Reformer's Road. Sister Kenny snorted when Dr. McDonnell told her that what she had done was the exact opposite to standard medical practice in polio, which was to immobilize the affected limbs in casts or splints. She was sure that she had a better idea. Gently, McDonnell warned her: "Medicine is not kind to a reformer, but the day will come when the profession will ask you to teach it what you have learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Stubborn Sister | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...tried to keep a sober, balanced perspective on the problems of censorship, and by its very existence, perhaps prevents other more vicious forms of censorship from being set up. Various members, in fact, have recently been called upon to lobby against House bills which attempted to deal with the exact situation the group handles...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

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