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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model of the great ship hung suspended by wires over the heads of the inquiry officers, while the survivors filed in, were sworn, told their stories and were examined. The stories were fragmentary and mostly technical, no exact cause of or blame for the disaster being readily deducible from them. It might have been concluded that the ship was wrecked entirely because of the ferocity of the storm, that some of her girders were weak, that some of her safety valves were not working and that one or more of her gas cells burst, or that the temporary failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shenandoah Court | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...conclusions as to the exact reasons for the destruction of the dirigible were obliged to wait on the final findings of the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shenandoah Court | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

While these issues and the exact future role of the League remains obscure, three notable accomplishments lie tucked away in the chronicles of the present assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Assembly's Close | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...well-known attacks are concerned, I speak very largely from hearsay. But I do know that the Harvard coaching staff has for some time been studying various successful systems of play and it is safe to say that what we saw at the Stadium on Saturday was not an exact reproduction of the offence or defence of any other system but was the result of an intelligent choosing of the best in all in so far as the coaches have been able to glean it in their long experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAME ON SATURDAY MARKS NEW ERA IN HARVARD FOOTBALL | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...attend his course are already possessed of this delight. After all, this is certainly a small prerequisite to demand of one specializing in literature in college. Furthermore Comparative Literature 6 is "for undergraduates and graduates." Why should the graduate students be neglected? I fancy that Dr. Magoun did not exact much of the mechanics of literature from them. Such things are usually in a course for the benefit of graduate students only. It seems to me that the foundation of your editor's reasoning is unsound. Courses in literature are not solely for entertainment. If a student feels that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fallacies Revealed | 10/1/1925 | See Source »

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