Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift of erudition and the gift of criticism. He has touched nothing he has not adorned. His "Convention and Revelt in Poetry" is a milestone in criticism. His work as an interpreter of Chaucer is unique. In "The Road to Xanadu" he has shown how psychological insight, uniting with exact and discriminating scholarship, can illumine the creative imagination of poets...
...this situation, your articles have brought me a real picture from that, what you are thinking about us and the Central-european Question. Not all of these have been exact, but may be that was not always possible. In some regards, everyone must keep some things unpublished, but TIME was speaking in many cases sincerely for us. Y thank...
...went to hear him had long since ceased to expect prodigies of technique or tone from 63-year-old Kreisler. What they expected, and got, was an afternoon of leisurely, charming, old-school fiddling such as only Fritz Kreisler can put on. Kreisler's playing is to the exact, nervous fiddling of today what a Kentucky colonel's drawl is to the feverish staccato of a prizefight announcer...
...publishers stress the fact that New England fishermen never go to sea without a copy, that the Massachusetts Supreme Court consults it for exact data, that it L; required reading in astronomy at Harvard and Smith. It went to 125,000 subscribers last year, many of them in cities. Says New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy in a typical reader's testimonial: ". . . Just so long as The Old Farmer's Almanac keeps coming out regularly I shall be reminded that, after all, this world is in many ways the same old world that our fathers knew...
...instrument Pillney uses is an exact reproduction of an old harpsichord. Unlike the piano, the harpsichord, the tone of which is suggestive of the guitar, has no hammers and its strings are plucked with little quills...