Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team at present is in a formative state. Coach Casey is trying all possible combinations, and may have hit on the right one in his new backfield. The old A backs were sluggishly slow and the new ones are the exact opposites. With Dean supplying the power they ought to prove formidable. Nothing left to do but wait for the woodsmen from Maine. --BY TIME...
...chemists who heard Professor Willstätter in Chicago last week saluted him to the best of their ability. His enzyme work is the culmination of 43 able years in chemistry. He was the first to describe the exact molecular structure of cocaine and stropine, work which led to the synthesizing of many other drugs. He analyzed chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of all growing plants, and showed that chemically it is closely related to hematin, the coloring matter of blood...
...books published by the Harvard University Press since May 1, 1933, include the following works: "The Lamarek Manuscripts at Harvard," by William Wheeler and Thomas Barbour '06; "Collected Works," Volume 3 (Exact Logic), by C. S. Pierce; "Brittons Bowre of Delights," edited by Hyder E. Rollins...
...portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note, "This is the exact size of Mr. Rockefeller's stick-pin- without diamond." Artist Matsakas profited from these criticisms and two weeks later sent the revised portrait to Florida. He carefully laid away the tie. Last week a Chicago newspaper reported that Matsakas "has called our attention to the fact" of the portrait...
...permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."' Passionately fond of a good story, he demanded that his reporters write interestingly. Life to him was no mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers, the idiosyncrasies of the City Hall clock, a new football coach at Yale, a vendetta in Mulberry Bend...