Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolving cylinder covered with paper. Special ink is used which makes the words appear in slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph and post offices...
...fact, that he gave up his professorship of logic and ethics at Columbia to devote his time to psychic investigation and propaganda. A number of facts might be noted about this list of great names: They are mostly men, whose scientific work has been done in the exact sciences, such as physics and astronomy, who are untrained in psychology or magic and have come into this interest by the back door, so to speak. They are for the most part elderly men, whose sense perceptions may have been blunted and whose interest in death and its consequences is natural. Many...
...productions of the Shuberl operetta Blossom Time are now running simultaneously in Manhattan- one at the 44th Street Theatre, the other at the Shubert. Why? Well, the Shuberts say that they want to present Blossom Time in London and they just can't decide upon the exact personnel. So ballots listing the cast of both companies are distributed at both performances among the audience who are invited to vote as to who they think should travel over the water. The Shuberts have apologized to the Chicago Evening Post. You see, they thought that the Post's dramatic critic...
...food given the prisoners", Mr. Hendry stated, "in contrast with former prison diets of bread and water and water and bread is as good as furnished by any public institution where over 600 people are fed each meal. Still another feature of the modern penal system is the exact physical attention given each incoming prisoner. Each man is given an exhaustive examination that brings to light every possible defect. In addition to this examination, Bertillion measurements and finger prints are taken so that each man is perpetually classified. If any of the defects can be remedied the patient is immediately...
...mathematics at University College, London, Director of the Galton Laboratory there. He has built up almost single-handed the modern science of higher statistics, including the coefficient of correlation, and is editor of Biometrika. One of his greatest works, The Grammar of Science, is the Bible of statisticians and exact scientists. Presumably he hopes to make the Darwin property another such intellectual center as he has founded in London...