Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exact length of time which will be allotted the four left in the competition rests with C. Colmery Gibson '37. Gibson could not be reached last night to set any limit...
...patient wife) awaiting him at home, in spite of hints and finally orders from his superior officers. When a French-abetted revolution broke out in Naples, Nelson transported the court and the Hamiltons to Sicily. When the revolution faded out he brought them back again, helped to exact such a treacherous and bloody vengeance that it nearly cost him his hero's popularity in England. Meantime Nelson had become Emma's lover; Sir William either did not see or did not care. Finally the English Government, reluctantly made aware of all these shenanigans, recalled both Nelson...
...Because of the impossibility of an exact definition of what constitutes unemployment, no figures which purport to estimate the total unemployed in the nation can be even approximately accurate...
Replied Steel, wholly unembarrassed: "No, Communism has not been achieved in the Soviet Union so far. It is not easy. But your term 'State Socialism' is not exact. Many people refer to a condition as State Socialism when a considerable amount of national wealth passes to government ownership, sometimes for military advantage, even though the majority of wealth remains in private hands...
Significance. The great Japanese statesmen killed or attacked last week were all models of moderation, budget-balancing, diplomatic conciliation and PEACE. The significance of the fact that they were attacked is to be found in the exact opposites of all they stood for. The significance is WAR. Neither attacked nor threatened was any "strong" or so-called "Fascist" Japanese. Their names began to appear only when Tokyo's smartest correspondents started guessing who was going to be the next Premier...