Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smaller cruisers armed with 6-inch guns Great Britain will have an advantage of 42,000 tons, but beyond this, in order to insure exact equality of opportunity, the United States makes the suggestion that each country will have the option of duplicating exactly the cruiser fleet of the other. Thus Great Britain would have the option, by reducing its number of small cruisers, to increase its large cruisers from 15 to 18 so as to give it a total cruiser tonnage of 339,000 tons, the exact amount of tonnage which the British...
...Hallelujah" scene is presented very effectively, and the singing is some of the best that has appeared in the sound pictures. In fact, the entire vocal side of the picture is more than satisfactory. The plot is an exact adaptation of the original musical comedy as are some of the scenes, but this is by no means unpleasant...
...feet long and 40 feet wide, going from seven to ten feet in depth. The smaller is 20 by 40 feet and five feet deep at the far end. Quite an engineering difficulty was experienced in the construction of the large pool, Intercollegiate rules call for an exact length of 75 feet. Due to expansion of the materials, great care had to be taken in the laying of the cements. Ceramic tiling was used throughout...
...exact number of Engineering School students who will be admitted could not be determined, but it is believed that there will be no more than five...
...lobar pneumonia have demonstrated something of the chemical constitution of the bacterium known as the pneumococcus which causes the disease. The organism consists of a proteim center and a capsule or outer coat that contains a carbohydrate. Although the pneumococci are otherwise very similar they differ in the exact composition in their capsules. It is possible to differentiate promptly 22 fairly common varieties that may cause the disease, lobar pneumonia...