Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illness, the collapse of delicate machinery, minute improvements in apparatus?Dr. Michelson stepped up to his corrugated steel, mile-long test tube stretching along the valley near Santa Ana, Calif., pressed a button, started whirling the tiny 32-sided mirror that is to determine once and for all the exact velocity of light...
...obviously impossible, even if desirable, to attain an exact numerical distribution under all four headings. From the present figures, however, and from the present tutorial staffs it may be seen that there is a danger of enlisting too many men from a particular field of concentration in a single House. It is still more possible that too many men will be chosen from a more general branch-of learning; the physical sciences, the social sciences, the languages, literatures, and arts...
...option as to dates was made since it is possible that some members may not be able to play because of examinations on Memorial Day. The exact date will be announced in the near future when final word is obtained from the Yale team...
...Journal of Washington Irving," edited by Stanley Williams, of Yale University, is an exact reproduction of a manuscript journal kept by Irving during thirteen months of his life in Germany, France, Holland, and England, and promises to be of great value to the student of American literature, in that it sheds a new light on an interesting man and an interesting period...
...next to expect of him. Once at dinner with Jeanne in a crowded restaurant Baudelaire rose, told the company this woman had ruined his life, then tried to kill himself with a knife. Economical Poet Alexander Pope kept copies of his love letters. Baudelaire did Pope one better: sent exact duplicates to two women at once. Pierre Loving tries to explain his hero's complex character thus: "Artifice and stoicism, these were the keys to the unassailable life of the Chesterfieldian martyr and saint...