Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition in pleasing the students' palates flares up eagerly once more. Statistics on eating habits are of little value, for the number of restaurants and their respective popularity shift with the dazzling speed of the population of a boom town in a gold-mining district--a simile not without exact application to the situation here. In spite of the excessive number of eating-places in the Square, there appears to be business enough to keep everything from hot-dog booths to semi-night clubs in existence...
...stage divertissement offers Our Gene in front of some of the best scenery that every emanated from the Publix studios. The exact idea is rather difficult to grasp but it seems there was a hunting party. Mr. Rodemich's frenetic drummer is quite delighted with his little hunting cap. It's a good thing too--the boy has not been a bit contented since he wore that toga plus a hair-ribbon come these two weeks...
Both sides claimed victory, though the specific points at issue during the strike still awaited judgment by the Industrial Commission. The I. W. W. pointed to the perfection of an organization through which Colorado miners can exact higher wages when the slack season ends. Also, a Federal court decision in the strike's closing days restored to the strikers the right of habeas corpus, unconstitutionally denied them when Governor William H. Adams declared parts of Colorado to be in a "state of insurrection" (TIME...
...report was exact except in three particulars. It was not Russia but Germany. It was not 8,000,000 bushels but 8,000. It was not wheat but hops" (see RUSSIA...
...moreover, particularly well arranged that the right-feeling vagabond may today usher in his day's respite with listening to a Beethoven quartet--number one of Opus 59 to be exact--played at 10 o'clock this morning in Paine Hall of the Music Building by the Darrell String Quartet. After hearing it one should be in a proper frame of mind for the following festivities...