Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Tampa, Fla. Barron Gift Collier,* famed organizer of car card advertising, virtually declared himself bankrupt. He did not use the exact word. What he said was that he could not pay all his debts immediately and wanted a moratorium. He thus became first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the new bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed the day before he left office...
...everyone knows, accounting is not an exact science. In every big balance sheet there is room for honest difference of opinion...
...even get the manuscript into my hands for a moment to give you an exact estimate of its length, so anxiously is our leader guarding...
...decision has been reached as to possible variations in the entrance quota of 1000, as this matter cannot be determined until late in the summer," college officials said yesterday. The decision will only be reached "when exact information is available as to the number of readmissions and of upperclassmen who will be returning to college for the year...
...partly accountable; his knowledgeable nose for details did the rest. Twice a week, for instance, he had his waiters' finger nails manicured; every night before dinner he held a hand inspection. Superb cook in his own right, he was always inventing new dishes; his knowledge of wines was exact, exacting. His hobby was "romance." On account of it he had long ago left a beautiful but too-domestic wife, a too-infantile infant. Just as everything was going nicely, just as his latest flirtation was beginning to grow serious, his grown-up daughter turned up to plague...