Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such an author is Mr. Hill, who endeavors, we are told, to explore the mind and emotions of the adolescent boy in his response to sex, religion and beauty. It would have been simpler, and, perhaps, more exact to have omitted religion and beauty. For the author of "Plundered Host" as for the great majority of the writers of similar works, religion, beauty and all the other objects of emotion, are synonymous with sex; their religion has its origin below the belt, and their beauty is almost invariably lighted by a red lamp...
...King is a most interesting study from the sartorial point of view. An exact balance is held by His Majesty between fashion and style, style and personal lik-ing." Thus pontificated, last week, the current London issue of Tailor and Cutter...
...exact date for the play has not yet been selected, but it will probably be during the latter part of March or the first of April. All interested in any from of work connected with the production of a play are invited to attend tomorrow's meeting, for there will be opportunities to work in the stagecraft and business as well as the acting departments of the play...
...eliminate one racing difficulty; breathlessness and subsequent fatigue. Then, if one could arrange a little flag so that it would run around the track at a steady speed just a little higher than the average speed of the previous record holder, and instruct the runner to follow the flag exactly, one would eliminate another difficulty, that of pacing at the exact speed best for a certain race...
...advanced as to details, except that there will be a tunnel through which the track straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time as a radical change in the Harvard football seating...