Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gardiner had no intention of allowing the Museum to be "taken over" by any meddling curator while she was winging through celestial galleries. So she added a codicil to the will, ordering every picture and every vase or other object to be kept eternally in the exact spot in which she had it before she died. If this was not done, the whole collection was to be taken to Paris, auctioned off, and the proceeds were to go to Harvard University. Now that this truth is out, some Harvard man will call at the Crimson and we shall tell...
...emancipation of mankind from the Capitalist grasp as the only inspiration for a really vital art in the present and future." I protest, as a connoisseur of prophecy. Mr. Philbrick can see into the future no farther than John Doe and I, and anyone who cared to predict the exact opposite would be just as right as Mr. Philbrick. It is shrewd to confine dialectic to the here...
...Houses for the purpose of arousing interest in the affair. Last night the Harvard Band agreed to join the ralliers on their march from the Yard to the further side of the river, and the ralliers hope to induce some of the coaches and players to attend. The exact location of the place where the "Sons of Eli" will be burned at the climax of the meeting has not been determined...
...from a state in which the revolution was considered only in so far as it was capable of universal application to one in which the revolution has been identified and merged with the traditional policy of Russia, and has assumed the attributes of Russian nationalism. Here there is an exact analogy to the development of France in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when the Republic slowly deserted its universalist notions for strictly nationalist ones. The decline of the Third international in power and prestige until it has reached a point where the Trotskyites propose to establish a Fourth...
...first place, the decision to hold a demonstration was made by a very small bloc of the Liberal Club, a bloc, to be exact, which constitutes less than one seventh of its membership. This group, in the absence of the regular leaders of the club, struck upon the demonstration as an opportunity to disseminate peace propaganda without any reference to its consequences, either to the Liberal Club or to Harvard. The Liberal Club itself is a minority organization, and this bloc was a minority within a minority, but it would have been awkward to explain a deliberate affront to West...