Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having that which even approaches an unbiased opinion will deny that particularly in this age and day, science embracing what may be called the exact fields of knowledge--possess an interest and must be a part of everyone's cultural development--that development if it is to become complete. Yet the sciences of a necessity from their innate nature place difficulties in the way of their inclusion in a column such as the Student Vagabond. The Vagabond is designed to be of use to those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures...
...second fact of importance carried in the Treasurer's report is the exact statement of the tuition-to-cost ratio. With the operating expenses of the University over nine million dollars, less than one fourth of the amount is paid by the students in actual tuition charges. Included in the operating expenses, however, are enrolled items amounting to approximately another fourth of the total sum which are paid indirectly or directly by the students in the form of rent, food bills, and miscellaneous charges. The blunt fact remains that about one half of the University's operating cost...
...finance & investment division directed the figuring, estimated that foreign corporations (governmental and private) and foreign governments owe the U. S. $13,000,000,000. That is exclusive of the $10,000,000,000 owed on War loans made directly by the U. S. Government to foreign governments. The exact totals are impossible to state because, although most foreign securities are sold publicly by U. S. investment bankers, a certain number are distributed privately...
Teeth Takers. Thieves and murderers seized, in Odessa last week, the 75-year-old Italian Vice-Consul Signor Kozzio. Having beaten him to death, they extracted and escaped with his several gold teeth. Observers wondered whether Il Duce, justly wroth, would exact "a tooth for a tooth...
...completion in the plant of the Van Dyke Company, and despite repeated efforts of the Editors to secure accurate information of the damage suffered by the volumes, it is believed from the meagre news obtainable that they were destroyed by the falling wall of the ruined building. When the exact amount of the damage is learned today, the Student Council and the Editors of the Register will probably decide their future course as to the publication of the book...