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...several times with ever increasing enjoyment and admiration. In contrast with this is the effort necessary to force myself to wade a second time through the turgid prose of Mary Wild Tillich's The Thrill of a Lifetime. Mrs. Tillich's story is flat, dead, and full of inexact and unevocative words and phrases...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Identity | 8/11/1960 | See Source »

...state of mild exaltation. Well before Cindy hit the coast, they predicted that she would be a mild blow and advised Carolinians to relax. The dead-accurate forecast saved untold time, effort and money, and to meteorologists, it was one more bit of evidence of how far their inexact science has advanced. In 1935 the Weather Bureau duly warned that a hurricane was approaching the Florida Keys. It could say no more. The hurricane proved the most violent in U.S. records, and killed more than 400 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watch That Hurricane | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...present Natural Sciences program does not seem the best way to endow the student with this basic knowledge. The non-science concentrator must be introduced into the process of hypothesis and experiment and must realize that the claims of science are limited: that measurement is always inexact; that the constructs it offers are not images of "reality" but working models for prediction; that statements are true until controverted by further sense data. The best way to appreciate this is not to learn about science but to learn science itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Program for Natural Sciences | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...printed inexact facts about the income-tax figure of my wife, Gina Lollobrigida. Your figure of $18,583 for 1957 represents the net tax to be paid by Signora Lollobrigida at the request of the Comnne di Roma (municipal administration of the city of Rome), which has fixed the taxable income for 1957 at approximately $128,000. MILKO SKOFIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Much confusion-and a good reason why every company can claim perfection-arises from the fact that cigarette testing is still an inexact science. There is no uniform standard on how many cigarettes need be sampled, which automatic smoking machines to use, how strong, long or frequent the puffs should be, how to trap the hundreds of different substances lumped together as "tar." Result: each company naturally uses whatever tests serve it best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THOSE CIGARETTE CLAIMS | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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