Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Think of the insight into the life of man we would get from an exact report of a morning's profane conversations in a shipyard at Cadiz when the Armada was fitting out! The trouble with a poet, and a novelist too, very often, is that he has never done the thing himself. He hate's work, and if by chance he has to work at the bench or in a mill, he becomes at once a wage slave and imagines all other workers have the same feeling towards work that he has." The words are Chief Engineer Spenlove...
About two years ago while seeking an opening for placing a loan application in a local bank I asked a Mr. Mackey, New Accounts manager, which banker was in the best humor for an approach. In determining from me the exact purpose of my mission Mackey asked if I would submit collateral and my answer was that I had, for the benefit of the business concerned, some building & loan shares. He most graciously advised me that, in his opinion, anyone who would keep their cash in building & loan and then impose upon their banker for commercial loans should have their...
...more than a wife to the perfumer. He borrowed money from her brother to set up his first laboratory. She had worked day & night in the laboratory in the early days so that the secret of his smells should not escape. Because there was no marriage contract stating the exact financial rights of the wife, Mme Coty claimed half of M. Coty's fortune at the time of her divorce. Last week Perfumer Coty bitterly protested that his business would not be able to stand the strain of obeying the court's order...
...club also announces that it will present its annual Christmas Miracle Play, on Sunday afternoon, December 20, against the cathedral background in the Germanic Museum. The title of the play and the exact time of presentation has not been fully decided. As in "Charles and Mary" the feminine parts will be taken by members of the Radcliffe Idler Club...
...that he has no way of indicating a hand that is one trick or even two-tricks stronger than the requirements for a one-bid. Opponents of the Official system maintain that this very fact gives added merit to the Culbertson system: the opposing side does not know the exact strength of the bidder's hand...