Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frankenstein constructed for the purpose of crushing other Frankensteins. They aren't necessary elements of any game. An espionage by camera might just as well be carried on in baseball. A slow motion picture would show the batting weakness of a rival college, or it would prove the exact trajectory of a star pitcher's out drop. But it wouldn't add to the enjoyment of either the watchers or the watched. Drudgery is not necessarily the complement of a winning team, but scouting is one of the things that mars football as a sporting event...
...dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese. Last week the most exalted man in China, General Chiang Kaishek, president of the Nationalist government, became and was baptized a Christian; to be exact, a Methodist...
...Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...
...would be, roughly speaking, only half the battle. Much of the noise of planes - some say 50%, some say "most" is caused by the propeller itself.*The Aeronautics Research Division of the Department of Commerce has been studying the problem for two years, is still uncertain as to the exact process by which propeller noise is created. Of the solution, however, it is certain : "The only positive method known of reducing propeller noise is to reduce the tip speed by using a geared propeller." Geared propellers are in use, will be more generally adopted as difficulties of weight and construction...
Walter Russell, president of the Society of Arts and Sciences, former editor of Colliers Weekly, and a well-known artist and sculptor, declares that the average student in Harvard has no opportunity to develop the aesthetic side of his nature but is forced to devote all his time to exact studies unless he deliberately selects art as his field of concentration. What Russell suggests as a remedy is either a required course in art or a course of such a nature that it can be taken in addition to regular subjects without too much added work in the form...