Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a fairly exact, if flattering, figure. Little Frida's pictures, mostly painted in oil on copper, had the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child...
Early in this century Sir William Osier, patron saint of modern medicine, discovered that nearly 53% of pneumonia fatalities occurred among drunkards. Two years ago young Dr. Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell of Johns Hopkins Hospital, stimulated by Osier's statistics, set out to learn the exact manner in which alcohol lowered resistance. Last week, after a score of different experiments on 175 rabbits, he reported in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin the first satisfactory explanation for this important pathological phenomenon...
...exact time for the forum had not been announced last night as Student Union officers were presenting the candidates with new rules for the meeting and working out a time that would suit all four
...Fascism is the last resort of an inter-dependent community when all else has failed at organizing it," he continued. Although he declined to specify the exact form in which Fascism might appear in this country, Pettee pointed out that it would not necessarily ape German and Italian Fascism...
That even the ridiculous has a limit is proved by the latest farce of the Marx brothers, "Room Service," an exact copy of the George Abbott stage production of the same name. The boys do not seem at home with their gags; the timing misses, the efforts used to get laughs are often strained. There is no hilarious sequence like that of the stateroom in "A Night at the Opera." In truth, the brothers seem awed by the fact that they are in a picture bought, not built, for their talents...