Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present the most satisfactory channel under such circumstances, the Student Council, is not directly open to the individual. One of the purposes of this body is "to bring before the governing bodies of the University expressions of undergraduate opinion . . .", but there is no exact means of doing so. By creating a subcommittee to receive student complaints and suggestions this means could be provided...
...months from one side to the other of the orbit 186,000,000 miles across. In spite of this very great length of base line, the shift in a stars position is so slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible in the eastern sky. Its distance was found to be about...
...fare, due to the fact the Elevated 8-cent pieces were Jamming the telephone pay stations; that on April 19, 1918, the CRIMSON held out for a maximum 7-cent fare, and last year offered as the first plank in its reform of Massachusetts a 5-cent fare-the exact stand taken now by the "Boston American" and the "Boston Telegram"? Would they be interested in keeping ahead of the game by shouting with us for a 3-cent fare tomorrow? Would they care to hear about the monster rally yesterday when part of the 9,700 of our readers...
...nations have figured; if the Washington conference is judged as great as we like to think it, the evidence will be in the fact that selfish national interests were to some degree sublimated. So to hear that Germany is trying to minimize her reparations bill; that France wants to exact an unreasonable sum for Germany and Russia; that the Soviet is attempting to avoid payment of debts and at the same time secure recognition and a large loan; that England and Italy are pursuing a moderate course because it favors their economic interests--to hear this from Mr. Vanderlip...
...University laboratories these investigations have now been pushed much farther and made more exact. The recent experiments were performed upon the eyes of frogs. The frog was killed and his eye was then immediately removed. The eyeball was cut in two and the optic nerve, which ordinarily connects it with the brain, was attached instead to two electrodes connected with a vacuum-tube amplifier such as is used in wireless telegraphy...