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Word: exaction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authorities dispute the exact location but most agree that "Eden" was somewhere in what is now Irak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Kingdom Freed | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...cannot be denied that the exact figures of the case show football games as distinctly golden eggs in the H.A.A. basket. To decry this, moreover, is to overlook the fact that these profits go to support the many other athletics that have a place in the Harvard calendar. The chief fly in the gravy is the scale of prices which make attendance at football games so expensive for the average undergraduate or graduate student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM ECONOMICS | 10/7/1932 | See Source »

...would testify to having had the same interview given to them by Miss Bankhead. Word for word the story was authentic and veracious save for the necessary deletion of certain unprintable words and expressions which Miss Bankhead used and I omitted. Otherwise, the content of the story was exact, as she very well knows. I have been interviewing the players of the screen and stage for the past 19 years at the rate of from two to four a week and over this period of time my entire output has been published. This is the first time in my long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...survey of real estate is being made in Cleveland in order to determine the city's exact needs, prevent an unjustified boom in the case of an upturn. But before there can be a boom the 24% vacancy in apartments will have to be filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dwellings & Dollars | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...member of one House cannot eat in another House except at the expense of the student with whom he is dining. The manifest inconvenience of this arrangement was discussed editorially in the CRIMSON, and led finally to the circulation of a petition among the House Committees, to discern the exact opinion of House members, and facilitate a change. Efforts to secure that change were unavailing then, but it was hoped that the authorities would act before College reopened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE EATING | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

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