Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as the problems of mental hygiene in the U. S. are so varied, many of them tenuous, the committee could formulate no exact program of relief. Their best was to advocate, and devote themselves to fighting bad conditions where they met them...
...southern Tibet. Going back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt to see the mountain but his disguise failed and he was stopped by the Tibetan soldiers, over forty miles from his goal...
...being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart of the disasters and deep triumphs of people in life...
...recent years at least, nothing has given various members of society more pleasure than to dilate upon the species of Homo sapiens known as that "Harvard man." Not that the judgment of these--shall we say scientists--has not always been very exact. Indeed according to many accounts the Harvard man is chiefly famous for three things--his unfortunate choice in his tailor, the "you can always tell a Harvard man but you can't tell him much" joke and his indifference...
...again this week. Jealousy? Ridiculous! Jealousy is not one of Great-Hearted Joe Forecast's faults. I realize that Joe Jr. won money for keen Harvard business men last week when he predicted Harvard's victory over Holy Cross, though the little rascal didn't give the exact score. He also did well on the other ames except for getting Penn and Penn State mixed up--a natural mistake for a young fellow...