Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another count against the Commission lies in its inability to reach unanimity of decision. On paper the duties of the Commission are simple enough. The matter is essentially mathematical, and mathematics is an exact science. Production costs at home and abroad having been ascertained by the Commission's experts; comparability becomes a matter of cold statistics, leaving small room for soap-box oratory or division of opinion. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience...
...wheels go 'round, the genial type who gains the personal liking of all who have to do with him. Philip is an orator with so many of his father's traits and tricks of speech as to appear almost a mimick. Combined, they make an almost exact replica of their father...
...cannot give you the exact figures," said the Finance Minister in high delight, "but I admit, if you wish, that the difference in favor of the bonds amounts to close to 100,000,000 francs. If I have been reproached with being too daring, my project's first results would seem to indicate that I took the right course and that, as I like to repeat, daring creates confidence. It is evident people with money to invest are eager to put themselves in condition to subscribe to the loan...
...Clarence Darrow and Bainbridge Colby-formulated plans Associate Counsels Dudley Field Malone and Charles H. Strong (Secretary of the N. Y. City Bar Association, appointed as "observer" by the Unitarian Laymen's League) were absent. The defense made known that it would seek not only to test the exact legal issues of the case-i. e., the constitutionality of the anti-Evolution law-but also public education in science through the testimony of eleven eminent scientists. One of this eleven-Dr. Henry Fairfieldl Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History -last week published a book* dedicated to Teacher...
...Kluge Fuchslein (The Sly Little Fox), an opera by Leos Janáĉek is, in technique, the exact opposite of Jenufa (TIME, Dec. 15), his first opera, written 25 years ago. Jenufa was realism-a Czech Wirklichkeit; this work is phantasy. It tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild...