Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Will any member of the University weighing 170 pounds or over, stripped, who is physically well, send his name and address, with exact weight...
Again, in intellectual things freedom brings new responsibility. No one exact theory or any branch of knowledge is recognized throughout a university, and on all subjects a man is encouraged to question, to form his own opinions. Because he is free to form his own opinion of truth, he is responsible for seeking more diligently after truth...
...pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able to undo the shrewd use, by Mr. Rockefeller and his associates, of peculiar opportunities, presented from 1865 till 1877 in the railway...
...annual dues for an active member shall not exceed ten dollars, the exact amount to be fixed by the House Committee, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees; for an associate member, the annual dues shall be five dollars; for a non-resident member, three dollars...
...relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered two new monoliths, each about twenty-five tons in weight. Thirteen monoliths in all have been found. Moulds of these have been made and exact reproductions in plaster will be placed in the Peabody Museum. Besides the explorations at Quirigua, other trips were made into more remote parts of the country and several groups of ruins, as yet unexplored, were found. As the Guatemalan Government has granted permission to make further explorations, the Museum hopes soon...