Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some little time, it has been increasingly clear that post-war history is repeating prewar history. To make this point is almost to risk belaboring the obvious, but recept events continue to strengthen parallel. Inevitably, the similarities are not exact, and the analogies, or homologies, cannot be dealt with too. Literally, but nevertheless they exist...
...dragon. Everyone knew that dragons were as mythological as the Minotaur. But the tales kept coming and in 1912 Major P. W. Ouwens of Java's Buitzenborg Zoo dispatched collectors to Komodo. They brought back creatures which not only closely resembled an Eocene reptile but were also almost exact replicas of the St. George dragon. Zoologist Ouwens named the new species Varanns komodoensis. The lay world called it dragon lizard...
...yourselves on the question of planned economy. Had these features been in the Democratic platform of 1932, that party would not have carried one state in the Union." In aiming at the Democrats in a Republican primary, Candidate Reed assumed that he was also shooting at Gifford Pinchot, whose exact political position lies camouflaged somewhere East of Democracy and West of the G. O. P. Nobody in Pennsylvania has ever succeeded in orienting the Pinchots. They have been borderland cases for years. Governor Pinchot's old Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port Jervis...
...pretty far. [ think we probably could have a reconciliation if I had time to think it over. Miss Gillespie's parents took the engagement ring away from her and the last I heard of it, it was in a vault down town. I don't know the exact value of the ring. You know, it is a 32-carat diamond, a part of the crown jewels of France. My father's mother bought it. . . . She willed it to my father, Col. John Jacob Astor. He willed it to me. I hope they return...
...judging the art of any primitive group; certain general characteristics must be borne in mind. The exact style of the art depends upon the usable materials which the tribe has at hand. Again, since the structure of any primitive group rests on unity and slow growth, its art development is usually so slow that the initial result of working certain materials with certain tools has a lasting effect on the art character...