Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affect, any "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy and sincerity, it is a tone, not of desperation or weariness with life, but of constant feeling for color and beauty...
...exact function of a Christian Association in the religious welfare of a university is quite impossible of definition; its activities constantly change as the conditions around it change. What was a need a few years back, ceases to be such today. New enterprises are undertaken; old ones are given up or done in another way, Thus, the work of each year differs from that of the preceeding...
Commenting on the difficulty in deciding just what views should be presented, Professor Chafee said, "It would be very difficult to determine the exact shade of redness which bars a man from speaking at Harvard. Scott Nearing was acquitted under the Espionage Act, and I can see no specific objection in his case. Debs, convicted and recently pardoned, is a man who has several times been a candidate for President, and is a man who amassed many votes. While I don't necessarily approve, I can see a reason for drawing a line in his case. Mr. Debs has been...
...back into Germany again by the same means. For practical purposes, the management of much of Germany's liquid capital has been transferred to Amsterdam and other Dutch centres. Thence, German imports and industries are daily being financed, while various international commissions seek German capital in order to exact their reparation demands...
...show up under actual playing conditions. The moundsmen who make the Southern trip are likely to be chosen from the following: Spalding, K. N. Hill, Puffer, Brown, Norris, Johnson, Casto, Nash, and Cordingley. The last-named has been taking things easily on account of his injured wrist, and the exact date when he will be available for active work is still uncertain...