Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...errands for any of the Seniors, graduates, or undergraduates at any time except study hours and before 9 o'clock in the evening. The Freshman had not only to fetch and carry for the upperclassman who called upon him for that service, but he had to know the exact ranking of his seniors, as the neophyte could be taken from one upperclassman by another of higher position in the College, the Governors having all priority...
...survey of tutorial work will reveal its unsatisfactory position in the college curriculum. For years it has stood in a No Man's Land of its own, beyond the pale of the regular course system, and the most conflicting opinions have been held regarding its exact position there, and the relation it ought to bear to the regular course work. The first essential for the invigoration of the tutorial system is to give it a definite standing, and to resolve the present chaos of opinions regarding it into more exact concepts. There must, in fine, be a clearer understanding...
...unwelcome subject of one of Judge Seabury's most lurid revelations, and the charges projected at him caused the hasty removal of his ponderous bulk from the New York bench. A patriarch among patriarchs, he had scattered largesse with a generous hand to kith and kin; the exact number of relatives to whom he flung the bounteous purse of the city pay-roll was declared, after investigation, to be 39. And the thirty-nine McQuades have occupied and will occupy a foremost place in the annals of municipal government in America, rubbing shoulders with their fellow townsmen, Tweed and Croker...
...they wait, but this may be neutralized some by the fact that most men who oat in the fraternities and other places where students wait are barely conscious of the fact that the students are waiting upon them. However, in other houses, reports show the situation to be the exact opposite of this...
...Bratianu Premier, famed Ion (John) the Great in 1881. His son, also Ion and also great, saw the Rumanian House of Hohenzollern safely through the War, which brought the nation huge new territories. He induced flamboyant Queen Marie's quiet husband (whose name, already forgotten, was Ferdinand) to exact the abdication of Crown Prince Carol. When King Ferdinand died and Carol's son Mihai became Rumania's "Boy King" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927), Rumanians said "It is now Ion who reigns and rules," but later that same year grizzled, astute old Ion Bratianu died, leaving the Premiership...