Word: inexact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this calendar every other month had 31 days, the rest 30, except February which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian...
Statistics are skeletons of history. Persons with inexact minds do not like statistics, yet without them industry would have no record. Out of many statistics published last week, most interesting were skyscraper figures in Skyscraper, house organ of Thompson-Starrett Co., builders. These figures showed that in the U. S. there are 778 buildings of ten or more stories, including 377 buildings of 21 or more stories. New York has more than half the buildings in both classifications. Surprising New York statistic is that more than half the high buildings are between 14th and 59th streets, that Midtown Manhattan...
Hoping that this may help clear up a wrong inference, it is submitted for what it is worth. It is not believed that TIME desires to draw inexact parallels with the conditions of other States where the governing bodies are politically controlled by the State executive department...
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Having happened to read in TIME, April 9, that my father, Vladimir de Pachmann the pianist, is a Jew, and that assertion being quite inexact, I beg you to rectify that error as soon as possible (if possible in the next issue of your magazine...