Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western methods far more intensively and constructively than did Peter the Great some centuries ago. The stability of the government depends upon the stability of this industrial revolution. The Soviets have cloaked their actions behind such a maze of rumour and propaganda that it is impossible to tell the exact state of affairs. Until an accurate and authentic report of business and social conditions can be obtained no real predictions can be made. At present Stalin is the only man who knows how sound the government is, and he confesses to a profound ignorance of the future...
...faces of prime ministers, prostitutes or the effects of the machine age, suitable subjects for Serious Artists. M. Roy is not. He is passionately interested in strips of colored paper, birds' eggs, bits of string, seashells, ribbons, planks with holes bored in them. He paints these with an exact technical dexterity which would do credit to Ingres, David or the 19th Century miniaturists, but in high, exciting modern colors...
...cigarets can be purchased for .8 pfennig. Lighters originated in Vienna 25 years ago. Their popularity waned, was revived by soldiers during the War who were not allowed matches. Today a lighter can be had in England for 10½, in France for 20½. Germany sells an exact replica of the expensive British Dunhill lighter ($5 in other countries...
...Einstein is interested in getting an exact measure of light's speed because it bears on his theories of the curvature and limitation of space. He will be able to put his eye to Dr. Michelson's eyepiece, watch the light flash in a 32-faced revolving mirror placed at one end of the tube. The mirror is adjusted so that by the time the light beam has raced away from it, down the mile tube and back again, another one of its 32 faces has turned to catch the light. By measuring the time it takes...
...Government officials. Secretary of Com merce Lamont made a speech in which he deplored "a very great lack of knowledge on the part of our people generally of the Department [of Commerce] and its organization and what it has to offer in the way of exact information on almost every phase of business, every industry from all over the world...