Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry, admitted: "We realize that to sell goods, advertising must have a punch. But we must fight to maintain our high standards, in an effort to eliminate the unscrupulous manufacturer. The packaged medicines industry has fought its way through gradual and quickening changes until it is outstanding for its exact standards, its scientific controls and its modern methods of packaging and distribution. In spite of their unfair premise, I believe that the muckraking books have had value at least to the extent of keeping us aware of our responsibilities. Complacency is sweet, but it is an enemy of progress...
...chief responsibilities of the Auditor is the Annual Treasurer's Report, bound copies of which occupy three shelves in his office. An interesting statistical detail pointed out by Taylor is the almost exact mathematical proportion that has been maintained between the student's tuition and professor's salaries...
That night Correspondent Ames spent in a field with the Italian advance guard. Early next morning came a radio message from Marshal Badoglio, bogged down miles back in the middle of his motorized column: The occupation of Addis Ababa must take place at once, regardless of squabbles over the exact order of precedence, because foreigners' lives were in danger following the flight of Haile Selassie...
...essay contests on neutrality now show their intense patriotism and their same desire to see American run the earth. It was not lack of patriotism which lay behind the order to leave the American legation; it was experience of the history of more than one recent crisis and an exact knowledge of the unimportance of American interests and the importance of avoiding friction. The so-called "insult to the American flag" has served to prove not only the value of that experience, but also the unchanged sensationalism of American newspapers...
...exact two-thirds vote had convicted Judge Ritter on this omnibus charge. Newshawks hastily checked to see what changes had caused his conviction: Senator McNary who had voted "guilty" on the first count had voted "not guilty" on the last; Senators Pittman and Minton who voted ''not guilty'' on the first count had changed to "guilty'' on the seventh...