Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more exact, a dogie is a calf whose mama has died and whose papa has run off with another...
...late. The trouble seems to lie in the rules committee and not with the officials, and there the blame should rest and the responsibility assumed. For our part, 'we extend our sincere sympathy to the harassed referee, who never is allowed to know what the exact rules are. They change so rapidly and extensively, and are so involved when finally evolved, that we often wonder how games are ever finished without more mistakes. The salient fact of the mistakes on Saturday is not that they would not have changed the outcome of the games in the case of reversed decisions...
...high excitation in it by electricity; they then examined the gas through a spectroscope and compared the results with the spectrum of the solar corona. Although a slight discrepancy appears in these observations, it can be readily accounted for by the inability to produce in the laboratory the exact conditions...
...books, papers, magazines, nothing comes amiss. To me, but for its size, I've never come across a magazine which takes such a devil of a lot of reading, and you simply can't skip any. But what surprises me most is the circulation. A magazine the exact counterpart of yours published in London would have a circulation of three-quarters of a million in next to no time. I have always taken American newspapers with a large grain of salt and personally think ours far superior, but TIME is a dog of another colour altogether. Well, here...
...truth in the Hobbesian maxim that no discourse can end in absolute knowledge of fact, then it is fatuous to paraphrase a philosopher, and reviews of philosophic works are especially futile. Mr. Santayana, furthermore, is the kind of philosopher who seems always to use the right amount of exact words, and thus lends himself to quotation rather than to summary. He needs to be quoted for the vigor of his thought and for the lucidity of his style...