Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the $19,261,432.50 which France owed the U. S. last week was a bagatelle which no Frenchman, in the Chamber or out of it, suggested that France could not pay. Matter of fact the exact amount of gold due the U. S. on Dec. 15 had been packed in boxes at Paris several days earlier and arrangements were complete to ship it this week on S. S. Manhattan, Pennland, Europa...
...making such changes as these there is of course one danger, to be averted at any cost, that Biology A degenerate into a general survey; laboratory, investigation and exact knowledge must remain the foundation material of any science course...
...need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her national aims, needs a first rate instruction in history at once." Other countries have various forces which contribute to national unity, such as the language in France and the traditions of literature and art in Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor...
...delighted Latin Americans seemed to expect prompt and sweeping tariff abatements as the first card in the new deal. Only President in the world actually to speak out on the U. S. election was Chile's Acting President Abraham Oyanedel. "The program of the Democrats," he cried, "is in exact alignment with Chilean aspirations! . . . A mutual reduction of tariff barriers is of transcendental importance...
...similarity between the contentions of Blackstone and Mrs. Eddy, Judge Hill said, "Their statements and logic agree in substance and in fact. They agree that the basis of law is divine, and that divine law is revealed through the Scriptures and must be discovered therein; and they are in exact accord with the fact that divine law is sufficient under all circumstances to meet the needs of mankind...