Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine that! I who have bought new shoes for all the little Forecasts out of my winnings on the Dartmouth game! I who, alone of the so-called experts, not only forecasted the winner of that fray correctly, but even broadcasted to my public the exact number of touchdowns it would take Dartmouth to beat us! And here was a CRIMSON candidate seeming to minimize my powers. But I answered him none the less with quiet courtesy, saying, "I have already made...
...Reverend Percy Stickney Grant '83, for over thirty years Rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York city, will address the gathering on the subject of "A New England Mistake" the second week in February. The exact night on which he will speak has not yet been determined...
Talk is and that exact concerning one French writer, hight Balzac, namely: he used to stay up late at night writing pot boilers, immersed in smoke, eclipsed by coffee. Perhaps "La Menage de Garcon" was one of the potboilers. One of the better potboilers. One cannot be sure when he sees the novel through at least three mediums plus Otis Skinner. "The Honor of the Family", born a bon mot, dies a cliche. One must, however, respect the dead. Mr. Skinner, Miss Jessie Royce Landis are very kind pall-bearers. But why the funeral...
Crown Prince Hirohito was hastily appointed Regent in 1921 and the Emperor has since lived in retirement. The exact nature of his indisposition has never been officially admitted, but journalists have repeatedly cabled that he "has lost his mind," "is hopelessly incapacitated...
...contributions of one or two dollars or make none at all without the danger of the Budget's not being completed. If the contributions per capital for today average the same as they have for the first three days of registration the quota will be reached almost to the exact figure...