Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Browning's "Pauline" of which there are reputed to be but 11 copies in the world, brought $16,000. The exact duplicate of this volume is included in the Memorial Room exhibit. A Kilmamork edition of Burns which sold for $6,750 in New York because of the few lines of Burn's hand-writing contained in it, may be found in duplicate form in the Widener collection, the Widener volume containing several pages of the renowned poet's handwriting...
Down from overcast skies in the Panama Canal Zone fell an envelope attached to a wire and a weight. Where it landed, men in uniform gathered excitedly, discussed its exact location, took the letter to more important men in uniform whose faces were grave...
...distant earthquake was recorded at the Harvard Seismorgraph Station beginning at 1.18 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Its intensity was only sufficient to carry the main phases of the motion to Cambridge, so an exact determination of the distance could not be made. The character of the phases recorded indicates a distance of about 10,000 kilometers, or about 6200 miles, one quarter of the way around the globe...
...point that the facts and statistics, gained through the questionnaires returned, would make possible a more definite conclusion on the problems of social stratification than has ever been made before. The research was started last fall and Professor Taussig estimates that it will be several months before the exact conclusions will be known due to the diverse nature of the replies received from business men. It is possible that tardy returns of questionnaires may swell the total considerably beyond its present sum. Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have been aided in the present survey by an advisory board composed...
...arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord of mushroom growth, anything short of futuristic pattern for the buildings and their relation to each other might be employed...