Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tremendons citadel which defended the town are still over 40 feet high. Whole appartments of chambers are hewn in the living rock of the precipitous cliff and engraved with the auuals of the dynasty of kings in the Vannic language which is only partly understood, and whose exact linguistic connections are a matter of hot dispute...
...stoep slopes of the cliff are cut into steps and furrowed with channels whose exact significance remains a mystery. Many other cliffs in the neighborhood have niches cut in them, which apparently had a religious purpose and many of them bear inscriptions. The gigantic walls set out on a desclate peak, framed by snowy mountains and mirrored in the lake, evoke, a striking picture of the power and might of the monarchs who erected them...
...Bingham specifically recommends to President Conant that the entire time devoted to football be limited to eight weeks . . . which is the exact period devoted to football by the 1935 Princeton team, not counting spring practice...
...recently moved his testing machines from the Massachusetts State College at Amherst to Harvard; the exact locale of the present establishment is the basement of the Cambridge fire house, between Memorial Hall and the Yard, where a formidable wire netting protects from the prying public a maze of glare vision meters, braking reaction machines, and other complicated mechanisms...
...even Mr. Hurja prepared to predict the exact election results of 1936. He does claim that Roosevelt will carry every state in the South and every state west of the Mississippi. There are 531 votes in the Electoral College. A winning majority is 266. The South (excluding Maryland and West Virginia) and the area west of the Mississippi (including Minnesota) have 272 electoral votes. Therefore, argues Mr. Hurja, Roosevelt is certain of re-election and any states he carries in the Northeast will be surplusage...