Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grant Park (named for Confederate Colonel L. P. Grant-no relation of Ulysses S. Grant-who designed the city's defense fortifications), the 50-foot by 150-foot Cyclorama, whereon is depicted the Battle of Atlanta in exact, stupendous detail...
...enough, because there should have been eighty-three. It was the thirty candles which showed how old eighty-three is. The huge white birthday cake wasn't up to the job it had undertaken; it was slacking with only thirty candles, or something like that, and probably the exact number didn't even have any mathematical relationship to eighty-three. Eighty-three is very...
...wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...
...M.I.T. position is the exact reverse of the Crimson's as only one newcomer, Sanford Glick at forward, is slated to start. Tom Creamer, captain for the second year, and his mate at guard, Walter Farrell; Richmond Wilson, lanky center; and Howard Samuels at forward all took part in the intra-Cantabridgian struggle last year...
...extricate the Council from its unhappy position. By shutting its eyes to the letter of the bequest, as it has unwittingly done for so many years, the Corporation can perpetuate the spirit of the Coolidge grant, and encourage the continued life and growth of debating. By insisting on the exact words of the will, the Corporation will only kill that which the bequest aimed to promote...