Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian philosophy to give up one's own space in the fallout shelter for a neighbor should read the story of Noah in the Bible. The Lord told Noah to warn the people of the coming flood and they laughed at him. He also gave Noah the exact dimensions of the ark, and only the animals and Noah's family were to occupy...
...round by half an inch, the steel crib on which a missile rests will not fit correctly. Says a project engineer: "Our assembly line stretches from San Diego, Calif., to Plattsburgh, N.Y., and when everything comes together at the proper time, the fit has to be exact, sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch. It's a more difficult design and construction challenge than building the missiles themselves...
...regular midsummer meeting of the National League has settled, once and for all, accurately and scientifically, the cause of the excessive heavy batting of the past few years, and the exact status of the so-called "lively" ball. This has proven not at all a "lively" ball, and therefore not the cause of the excessive batting or of the prevalent home run craze...
...each meeting, starting off each purgative session with the statement: "My name is- -; I am a compulsive gambler." Prayer plays a large part in the rehabilitation process. G.A.'s are guided by the society's Twelve Commandments ("We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." "We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all"). Some chapters place small newspaper ads on the day of a scheduled meeting, but G.A. does not solicit members; compulsive gamblers must seek out G.A. Though...
Then Sahl claimed that he had once taught college math, and, as a blackboard illustration of the differences between the exact and inexact sciences, "I drew a woman on a couch, and I explained to the class that in mathematics you moved across the couch and got the girl. In philosophy you never reached her; and in psychology, you discovered she wasn't the right girl for you anyway...