Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very exact will be the marks by this new method, which must analyze the understanding with mathematical precision, estimating the work done as the hydrometer measures the alcohol in spirits, at the same time discovering and exposing all the ingenious devices by which examination-papers have been made easy. Every one will be truly gauged according to his actual merit by this unerring machine, which will play havoc with those cunning seekers after college-rank whose sole claim to distinction is the idea entertained by their instructors that they are trying hard. Amiable rank-smiths, there...
...peace? I don't want to go more than three miles away; I will not go where there is a musical instrument (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and the rules of the house must prohibit duns, pedlers, subscription agents, editors, and, in short, everybody. I don't think I exact too much; at least my instructors (to whom I refer) never thought me much too exact at recitations...
...that time, having perhaps rowed in College Eights up here in the May Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another two months, being an exact repetition of what they had done before while preparing for the Inter-'Varsity Race in February and March, and besides many would be utterly prevented from rowing, so the crew would be in reality a different and not a representative one. Again, supposing Oxford were beaten by Cambridge...
...track unless they really train, and if there was a single man in last Saturday's races who had trained himself into the pink of condition, we failed to notice him. Several gentlemen have ridden over the track on their bicycles, and their cyclometers make five laps an exact mile...
Bicycle Race (2d heat) brought Sturgis and Swan out, Parker having withdrawn. The race was almost an exact repetition of the first heat. Swan gained steadily, and they scored down the last hundred yards very evenly. Swan won this heat by two yards...