Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat wave, which was felt over the entire continent of Europe, reached a severe temperature in London. The exact height of the mercury is not stated, but many people have died from prostration and sunstroke...
...boundary between New York and Canada. Eight inches north of the line a box was set up, and an original positive film of the fight pictures was run off through the box in front of an electric light. The camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained for exhibition. It was argued that nothing was imported except rays of light, but the Federal Courts made short work of the argument...
...dominant view among biologists today, backed by much exact microscopic research into the composition of cells, in the laboratories of such men as Profs. Clarence MeClung, of the University of Pennsylvania, Michael F. Guyer, of the University of Wisconsin, and T. H. Morgan and Edmund B. Wilson, of Columbia, rests on strictly objective data. They say there is a special chromosome (chromosomes are minute bodies of constant number and appearance for each species of plant or animal which appear in the cells during cell-division) called the X-or accessory chromosome, which is found in half the spermatozoa of male...
...appointed a policy committee to lay down the exact terms of the contest and the giving of the prize, which will be known as the American Peace Award. This committee will in turn select the jury to choose the winning plan...
...their languages and literatures, of their industries and habits of life, and of the countries in which they live. If the author discusses the geological formation of a certain mountain range or the flora of a valley, he uses scientific terms with as much naturalness as he employs exact epithets in describing a moonlit night in Tahiti...