Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as the dollar has been debased (37%), since U. S. citizens still buy most of the transatlantic tickets sold. After two days of bickering the Conference decreed an approximate 10% upping of the rates of all lines in all classes, effective on sailings after Jan. 1, 1934. Exact rates will be published just before Christmas, will vary from the uniform 10% increase only in the case of First Class on old small steamers which will be priced down to sell on a par with the upped rate of Cabin Class...
Although your esteemed correspondent, Mr. Du Bois, is to be congratulated on suspecting a connection between military science and syphilis, he seems to have jumped at a conclusion regarding their exact relation in an academic curriculum. To begin with, he has not made clear whether he considers syphilis a trade or an art. Secondly, it should be pointed out that the efforts of the renowned professor, emeritus, were devoted to the stamping out of that malady, whereas no one contends that the R.O.T.C. departments concentrate the whole of their efforts toward the abolition of war. It is not rather idealistic...
...finds that the three great classes of human parasites are Bankers, Brokers, and Bishops. From reasoning, no less definite, but far more convincing, the Radio Priest arrives at the same conclusion (except for the Bishops). If Father Coughlin makes "House of Morgan" and "gold-" into adjectives more colorful than exact, the ideas could not be decently expressed for popular consumption with other words. A five-foot shelf of Economic Quarterlies cannot prove as he does, that there are forty thousand millionaires too many in this country; nor will any number of Treatises on Money express as pungently that the "money...
...scandal is revived. Anatomists tell King George V that their science can tell the exact age of human bones and therefore the exact year the princes were murdered. King George authorizes them to open...
...hundredth anniversary of Harvard's founding was celebrated on September 8, probably because the Corporation did not wish to break up the college term with a celebration. The exact date for the Tercentenary in 1936 has not yet been determined, though it will certainly be held in September or October of that year...