Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many warmest thanks for the copy of July 6 TIME containing the review of my article in Science, June 26, pp. 621, 622. The speed is quite astonishing and the reviewer has done a masterly job. He knows the subject well and has precisely caught my exact meaning...
...huge, raucous, indefatigable voice had been heard by 100,000,000 spectators at New York prize fights, theatres, rodeos, ball games, carnivals, races, funerals. He scorned loudspeakers, earned $25 for ordinary and $100 for championship fights, invented a system of hand-wavings to show a fighter's exact weight, made a prizefight crowd of 40,000 stand in silence while he improvised a prayer the night Lindbergh was flying toward Paris. In 1933, when he awoke one night to find himself alone and paralyzed as a result of his first stroke of apoplexy, Announcer Humphreys achieved his masterpiece...
...payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn the State will exact for the next 60 years from former tithe-payers sums which, if fully paid, will then wipe out the obligation forever in 1996 A.D. Up & down England's countryside tithe riots have been frequent, and police seeking to find and seize cattle and other possessions of farmers who refuse...
...airman, whose nationality cannot be disclosed for the present, has flown over the North Sea at a dizzy height. His mission was to use specially sensitized plates to photograph the movements of the German fleet executed in the presence of Hitler. For it was highly important to learn the exact state of preparedness of the German naval forces and even more, the new methods their chiefs intend to apply in case of real warfare." Concluded Augur in London proudly: "At least one great Western power now possesses accurate information in this respect...
...Souverain in numberless factories and shops were making what they called peace "in principle" with their employers. In the big Paris hotels guests found that, although the hotel workers' strike had been settled in principle, the hotel workers were in most cases still playing cards or dominoes while exact details of the terms on which they fully intended to resume work were being drawn up, much as the families of a French bride and groom haggle over the marriage settlement while the engaged couple are only too anxious...