Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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QUAI D'ORSAY, French Foreign Office, in an official communique: "The French Government reserves its reply to the allegations of Mr. Lloyd George until it is in possession of the exact text." ... There was concluded no secret compact between M. Clemenceau and Mr. Wilson, and if there were conversations between them during the absence of Mr. Lloyd George, the latter knew of the result as soon as he returned...
...volumes are men of intrinsic theories and are necessarily at variance with other leaders of speculative thought. They have interpreted here too conservatively and there too liberally, according to their individual tenets. But truth, that beacon of good scholarship, is everywhere apparent. The sources are unimpeachable, the composition is exact, the theorizing is at least authoritative. These are the reasons why this history is of importance and why it must be considered of permanent value in the study of British history...
...among London drawing-rooms and then a couple of years in jungles, men who wandered about the world, whose friends were scattered across a hemisphere, but who were all joined by their common membership in the British official class. They are not often described with any detail, but the exact atmosphere in which they moved is obvious everywhere in the book. It is an atmosphere unconsciously summed up by Sir Harry's explanation of his dislike for the Boers: "Their policy toward the natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack of interest...
...exact purpose of Mr. Schwab's European visit is unknown. Varying rumors report that he is about to acquire an interest in Austrian or German concerns. At any rate, the potential and actual competition anticipated from the European steel centres is no topic of mere academic interest, least of all to the American steel men best qualified to judge conditions in the industry...
Ringing the bell is an exact science. "I ring it on the hour and the minute, and as near as possible on the second," said Mr. Conant, "I've been on the job going on thirteen years, never missed a day, and never had a complaint on the bell being wrong. Two-thirds of the students and professors come to me for the right time, and most of the clocks in the square are set by the bell...