Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owing to the cancellation of the match, with M.I.T. which was stated for the early part of this week, the Dartmouth combat will be the first intercollegiate test this season for the University fencers. Although the exact calibre of the New Hampshire team is unknown, it is anticipated that if will offer strong opposition...
Concerning the examinations, the committee mentions the fundamental failing in an examination system, due to the fact that a large variance exists in the marking standards of various readers, despite the best of standardized systems of marking used by the College Entrance Board. Concerning even an exact a science as mathematics for example, the committee found that in "a study of markings of the algebra and geometry examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board revealed an amazing variance in the individual judgments of the different examiners. The correlation between random markings of the algebra examination was only...
...director general of medical services to the British Army in the War, and the late George James Playfair, Baron Playfair, an outstanding medical scientist who used to cheer patients with an account of his part in the action at Shipka Pass in the Turkish War of 1877. While the exact process by which Bovril is distilled from meat is secret, Bovril, Ltd. has never attempted to conceal the fact that it takes 20 to 30 pounds of good lean beef to make one pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly suggested by the Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy...
...building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes for the institute the primal fact of geography, the exact time. It is wired to another mechanism in the clock room, where several varieties of time are kept, subject to radio and astronomical check...
...three-phase 60-cycle hum of the heaters in the furnace was to his ear "an exact representation of the noise one hears as a female mosquito visits one in the night, and one endeavors to crush the annoying creature by a slap of the hand on the side of the face where the pest appears to be ready to draw blood from the victim of its attention...