Word: inexactness
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...Pietro's record of combat, its eye for terrain and for weather, its recognition of war as a science both wonderful and tragically inexact, are at least equal to any seen in films so far. But its great distinction is its constant, bitter, admiring, pitying awareness of human beings...
...doing." Said onetime Fusilier Graves: "This is no time to persuade the British public . . . that British greed and tyranny had solidly united the thirteen colonies in a white-hot fury of revolution. . . . The broadcast account of Breed's Hill, popularly miscalled Bunker Hill,† was beautifully and comprehensively inexact...
...circular boasted of the historical notes "included in the margins of many of the maps to clarify certain situations" and told of the cartographer's accuracy "in contrast to the sloppy and inexact maps which have come out in previous years...
...China the Japanese pressed ahead. Copying the British fashion, they bombed with leaflets. But as usual the copy was inexact: not following British restraint, the Japanese simultaneously bombed with bombs, horribly, killing 400 and wounding 400 in Lu-chow, a city without medical supplies. In Shanghai the Japanese military moved towards a showdown with foreigners. U. S., British, French and Italian defense-force commanders were called together and told that international defense of the International Settlement ought to give way to Japanese defense-of what would then no longer be an International Settlement. But lest this be construed...
Practitioners of an inexact science torn by dissension, psychologists are often suspected of having an inferiority complex. If they are so afflicted, they seldom betray it in public. Last week, however, Dr. Gordon W. Allport of Harvard, retiring president of the American Psychological Association, declared that as prophets of human behavior psychologists are not in the running with statesmen, lawyers and headwaiters...