Word: exact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although no exact figures are available as to the cost of the stands, it is thought that the sum will be about $170.000. When the work is completed the structure will be left in place permanently or at least until a radical change in the Harvard football seating arrangements is made...
Doubtless he did this as automatically as a parson citing one of the Ten Commandments, and with as little expectation of being challenged. Lord Balfour laid down the astute principle that Great Britain will not exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House...
...scholarly conclusion Mr. Baldwin prophesied that the Conservative Party would be returned to power after the election "by the same majority which Disraeli received in 1874." Although the exact number was not mentioned by shy Stanley Baldwin, lesser Tories were soon whispering around the theatre...
...student's particular field of concentration has been somewhat changed this year, and instead books are being presented which are of more general bibliographical interest. More copies than usual have been bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover of each book...
...readiness to refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European stock, will be wetter than the eastbound trip with its limited medicinal supply for sale. Likewise the chief steward will have to exercise rare judgment in making his purchases abroad to estimate the exact thirst of westbound passengers and thus reduce to the minimum the surplus to be discharged at the 12-mile-limit...