Word: exact
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...little silver, no foreign exchange behind it. Chungking currency, with which he will have to compete, is specifically backed by half of the recent $100,000,000 loan from the U. S. Government. One interesting solution Mr. Chou had already devised. He put into circulation bank notes which were exact counterfeits of Chungking currency except for the signatures...
Meanwhile, in the U. S., Physicist Cecil Taverner Lane of Yale decided to build a Kapitza liquefier. He sent to Cambridge for blueprints. Unwilling to dismantle the machine for the sake of exact measurements, Cambridge sent only sketches, which showed valves in impossible places and other aberrations. Nevertheless Dr. Lane persevered, correcting the mistakes in the sketches by hunch and logic as he went along. It took him three years, cost $5,000. Last week he announced that he had successfully completed a Kapitza liquefier, was making liquid helium for low-temperature research quickly and safely, and at a cost...
...second, in spite of its title is not about a person, but about a person, two people, as they represent an idea: the struggle of the imaginary and the real. This is dealt with at length by John Finch in the same magazine--his second paragraph to be exact. Finally, the third poem deals with reflections and meditations on the impossible possible, in that it imagines the existence of a perfect philosophier poet and how imperfect he would...
Like Henry Ford, who standardized automobiles and put them within reach of everybody, Emily Post made polite manners a commodity available to all by reducing them to a set of simple, exact rules. Today, at 67, Mrs. Post is still undisputed autocrat of U. S. etiquette. Mrs. Post has long had another ambition: to write a Blue Book for raising children. Last week it appeared: Children Are People (Funk & Wagnalls...
...Architect Wright responded with what he called "the first completely functional church." Last fortnight Commissioner of Buildings Frank Lloyd (no relation) Lang took a look at the plans, refused to issue a permit because they did not comply with the city's 1927 building code. He demanded more exact specifications...