Word: inexact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growth of military knowledge can be based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government, and it is therefore no matter...
Statistics prove your method inexact...
...Kobak is an unpressed little man with a face that might have been clipped from any old banquet photograph -shy, inexact grin, blurred eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck, practical jokes and the Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really...
...piped directly to her studio in midtown Manhattan. Throughout them all, she has to adjust continually an intricate assembly of instruments: turntable speed controls, cutting tools, a wailful of sound devices. But engineering does only half the job; the rest is subject to the varying laws of a wholly inexact science: taste...
...Born, grows and dies, so do societies undergo a similar cycle of birth, florescence and decay. And, like different individuals, different societies are charged with varying amounts of enthusiasm, moral fervor, faith in progress and the ultimate rightness of things --a conglomerate of moral values commonly designated by the inexact term, "idealism...