Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrong in thinking that simple honesty, public devotion, feeling, and "rhetoric" cannot solve our problems even without exact knowledge of technicalities of law, economics, and finance...
...held in 40 different colleges under the supervision of Lincoln B. Hale of Yale. Edward S. Amazeen 2G.B., graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, has been in charge of the preliminary work here at Harvard but will be assisted by Paul W. Lehmann 2G.Ed., during the examination periods. The exact date for the tests will be announced next week by Amazeen...
From Chiang's point of view, however, the four ancient virtues mean even more: ch'ih, patriotism; lien, morality; i, social sense or the exact opposite of its English meaning, and li, discipline-the four cardinal virtues of any nationalistic State. Says Chiang...
James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General, who predicted that the U. S. airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
According to the Observatory's figures the angle of the meteor's descent to earth was about 30 degrees. The actual size of the disturbance was probably about 500 feet across. A more exact description of the position of the flight follows: the position at the start was approximately 67 degrees 40' West, 63 degrees 21' North; when it exploded, the position was approximately 67 degrees 15' West, 42 degrees 28' North...