Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder at the mere thought of an intelligent foreigner shaking hard-won American institutions with the rude blasts of his opinions...
...general way, the physical causes of such catastrophes are scientifically known, but the exact conditions under which they arise are not known or predictable. They occur only in two parts of the world-or, at least, are very extraordinary elsewhere. The Mississippi Valley and Southeastern Europe are their habitats...
These contests, modelled on the same lines as the recent CRIMSON competition, have been substituted for the popularity contests originally proposed. The News contest subject follows the exact wording of that set in the CRIMSON contest...
...Tennyson's exact words: That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies...
...Publication of the Naval estimates revealed an increase over the current year's expenditure of ?4,700,000, the exact figure being ?60,500,000. The increase is explained by uncontrollable causes, such as increases in wages and prices; ?1,320,000 for the cost of Air cooperation with the fleet; ?50,000 for experimental work; increase...