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...Dumpy" is an exact, descriptive adjective, meaning, according to Webster's New International, "short and thick, of proportionately low stature." TIME is exact...
...pronounced his treatment of Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island as "worthy of all praise," and his management of the public funds as "remarkably cautious, exact and particular." In Tyler's time there were no public defaulters, no corrupt army contracts, and nothing resembling the present oil scandals.. Instead of building up a colossal debt like Lincoln, Tyler reduced the one that came to him, and administered the government on one fourth less expense than his predecessor, Van Buren...
...Period has flowed along with an untroubled course, and in general without the opposition and many of the defects that characterized its initial employment. Evidently all the participants have extracted something helpful from the January experiment, for this spring assignments are better proportioned, students less perplexed as to the exact intent of the Period, and the Union and Widener more completely furnished with the stuff by which examinations are passed...
...Basket Makers are the earliest inhabitants of the Southwest of whom archeologists have any exact knowledge. They date back from 3,000 to 10,000 years. Their material culture differed considerably from that of later Indians. The chief interest of these Basket Makers for modern science lies in the fact that they were probably the first people in the United States to practice systematized agriculture. They cultivated a very primitive variety of corn from which it is believed maize is derived...
...Technology, pursuing his study of the cosmic ray, has illuminated new chapters in the celestial life of the hydrogen atom. Those infinitely tiny but infinitely active particles not only leap at each other explosively to form helium, but also by special jumps unite to form oxygen and nitrogen. The exact nature of the jump is not yet fully understood, but each different jump shoots off its own private signal, a ray of definite power...