Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no exact figures on the number of hard of hearing people in the U. S. but this does not deter many people from quoting any figures that seem to suit their fancies. I have seen figures ranging all the way from 200,000 to your 20,000,000 which seems a new high. My own estimate would be somewhat less than a tenth of your figure. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is certainly doing good work but nothing is gained by making out their job to be astronomical in extent...
...Buenos Aires last week tall, tea-colored José Santos Gollan, professor of journalism at the University of La Plata, had given prizes to the New York Times and the Minneapolis Journal, it would have been the exact reverse of a ceremony that took place in Manhattan. Instead, La Prensa of Buenos Aires, El Comercio of Lima, Peru, got the awards. And Professor Gollan (who is also Sunday editor of La Prensa) received them with Dr. Luis Miro Quesada, president of the board of El Comercio...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
...lone casualty as a result of the day's rough-and-tumble workout was Junior guard Don Lowry. Lowry was bumped up considerably, but the exact extent of his injury will not be known until today. George Heiden, Burgy Ayres, and Club Peabody did not participate in the heavy work yesterday...
Bakers last letter, which was addressed to John F. Seiberling '41, expressed uncertainty as to the exact date of his mobilization. "It's astoundingly difficult to convince the French government that they need any more men," Baker remarked...