Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1845 the College published the exact number of absences from recitations for each class throughout the year. In 1843-1844 each Freshman had 620 classes to attend and had a total number of one and a half unexcused absences for the year. Of the 502 classes a year the Senior had, he cut an average...
...impertinent reporter wrote impertinent George Bernard Shaw: "How long do you think you are going to live?'' Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
Although the exact subject of Roosevelt's talk is not known, it will probably concern the Phillipine Islands or America's colonial policy...
...assumption that these quantities are constants is more important than the exact determination of their values. Atom-smashers, cosmic ray observers and other experimentalists might not be seriously disturbed if the constants were not constant, but wavered imperceptibly within the limits of experimental error. But such a thing would have tremendous repercussions on the vast theoretical structure of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, indeed on the whole philosophy of physics...
...still had plenty, but felt that he was "going nuts from not doing anything." So last week he gave a heave and a shove, and out on a Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust got its name during a Chicago stockyards investigation, trouped for 25 years, laid off in the early 1920s. Last week...