Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact line of demarcation which separates the scholar from the pedant has never been determined to the satisfaction of any one man, much less an academy. One may always accuse a scholar of being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully...
...various considerations, a discussion whose exact nature would add nothing to this dissertation, the night before last marked the initial appearance of the Vagabond in person at the Pops, although, during the last two weeks he has often urged others to attend, and wished that he might go himself. Be that as it may, as he sat at one of the tables with an accomplice in crime sipping near dear out of glass lily-sups, and munching pretzela to the tune of one thing or another, he could not help letting his imagination transport him some 3000 miles in space...
...Exact Handicaps Not Settled...
Although the exact handicap which will be allowed this trio will not be known until tomorrow. Wide told the CRIMSON yesterday that the handicap would probably be a little over 200 yards...
...looked at the clock behind the Chief Justice and saw that it was within two or three minutes of the hour when the Court would rise, and he concluded his impressive argument with these exact words: 'If your honors shall find a way to uphold the validity of this amendment, the Government of the United States as we have known it will have ceased to exist. Your honors will have found a legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution, and untrammeled by any of its limitations...