Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of this fact, it might be well to create a special legislature of antiquarians for the due consideration and care of these relics. Spirited debates might be held on such subjects as whether or not the world is flat, and the exact time of Creation as determined by an hour-glass. By this method the ordinary process of law-making should attain a rate of speed almost perceptible to the naked eye, and the Records would be made light enough for six attendants to handle with ease...
These windows are exact copies of windows in certain Austrian churches and monasteries near Vienna. The originals are fourteenth and fifteenth century pieces, being remarkable chiefly for the richness and brightness of the color of the glass...
...these examinations for Seniors in the fall instead of the spring was an improvement, but unfortunately the benefit to be derived from it is much diminished by the veil of mystery that hangs over the examinations. On the one side, Seniors should be notified early in September of the exact time of examination, so the souls made a bit callous to academic minutial by a summer of freedom may be properly filled with dread before the week of the required tests: and the time at which these are held, both in October and, for History and Literature, in February, might...
...Declaration in effect created the Executive Committee of the Congress a Government of Independent India and authorized this Government to: 1) Proclaim "civil disobedience" to the British Raj; 2) Order nonpayment of taxes; 3) Command the desertion of the 200,000 native troops in the British Indian Army; 4) Exact the resignation of native members of the nine Provincial Legislative Councils, which flourish as puppet congresses under British tutelage; 5) And finally to do any or all of these things at such time as members of the Government may deem best...
...matter of student aid in facing the new cost of living must wait for attention at Harvard until the exact scale of expenses in houses as compared with the present is known. An effective solution might be the use of the money for a direct endowment of the houses that would eliminate the need of the secondary form of student...