Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faced the music, inclined his ear. "Accustomed to the sound of deadly missiles," said he, 'I began to make observations of their peculiarities. ... I found that I could, with a trained musical ear, mark the spot where shells reached their acme, and so could give the almost exact range of the enemy's guns...
According to the rules of the Triangular League the University had to choose the general subject this year, while Yale will supply the exact wording within a few days. The subject thus worded will also be the subject of the third debate of the New England intercollegiate League on March 14, when the University speakers will face Dartmouth. the debate with Yale the following week will complete the third round triangle, Dartmouth having taken the place of Princeton, which is not in the New England League...
...measure photographically the light of the corona. The efforts to determine the facts has led the Harvard observers to request amateurs to station themselves along the northern border of the path of totality, which extends approximately from Cotuit, directly through Providence, to Stafford, Connecticut, in order to determine the exact line along which the shadow of the eclipse ceases to be total...
...planned to have the audibility tests on signals sent from the Haverford station which will broadcast a series of long dashes while the sun is in eclipse. By those and several similar tests it is hoped to determine the exact effect the eclipse will have on the radio waves...
...March 1. After that date it will be raised to $10. Partial payment can be arranged at the time of subscriptions, but the remainder must be paid by April 1. It is essential that subscriptions be made promptly, as the committee wishes to know at an early date the exact number of albums desired...