Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had for many years (to be exact since about 1925) this haunting apprehension of another world war, which has at least given me a little more fortitude to meet the demon when it arrived...
...graduate students and undergraduates, as far as library facilities were concerned. To get a book in the Center would mean turning around in a chair and picking it off the shelves. And if a student wished to pursue a subject at length, the staff could give him adequate and exact references in Widener...
Flagship of the British Grand Fleet in 1914 was Jellicoe's Iron Duke. She lay anchored last week in Scapa Flow at almost the exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters...
Fortnight ago, newsmen overseas, headline writers and readers in the U. S. began to understand each other about what was happening on the Western Front. The French were advancing by inches, not miles. Last week, official figures delineated the exact extent of Allied advance in the first four weeks...
...limpid prose, phantasmagoria hauntingly created but incredible in a landscape sensuously seen, smelt and touched but unrecognizable. It is the same with Author Prokosch's ponderings: relevant, plausible, portentous and flimsy. Aware of the flimsiness, he attributes it to his material: "No crisis or tragedy [in America] becomes exact. The great struggles do not lie in the individual, they lie in the land, they are tribal and regional, and can't quite be put into words...