Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That an overwhelming majority of U. S. daily newspapers outside the South are pro-Landon is undisputed. Nearest approach to an exact count was a survey by Betty Millard published in the New Masses last week. Having examined the "admitted or effective editorial attitude" of every U. S. newspaper, including the South's, with a circulation of 50,000 or over, she found that those for Landon had a combined circulation of 14,347,000, those for Roosevelt had 6,996,000, those neutral...
That Mr. Pickwick was not an original creation of Charles Dickens is illustrated by "Maxims and Hints for an Angler," by Robert Seymour. The pictures in this book show a short, pudgy figure with glasses on the end of his nose and with a long tail coat, the exact counterpart of Dickens' famous character. The fact is that Dickens probably derived the idea from the drawings of Seymour...
...General of the U. S. Public Health Service. The old disease is syphilis. The conjunction of these two was of large medical importance because Surgeon General Parran is now well launched on a nationwide campaign to bring this venereal disease out into the open and under control. Today, though exact figures are lamentably lacking, it is expertly estimated that one U. S. citizen out of ten is afflicted with syphilis...
...other bit of Bullock history: "In the middle of the summer of 1930, I was talking to former President Coolidge in his little law office in Northampton, Mass. Mr. Coolidge said to me, and I remember his exact words, 'There will be an investigation of investment trusts.' I replied that I would welcome such an investigation...
...mountains of north Georgia for at least 40 years. My mother and my grandmother sang it many years before 1924. The music and the general idea is the same as the modern version, but the words have been modernized. Other readers too will probably write giving more exact information of the true source and age of this song...