Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
...will be resolved into simple factors of chemistry and physics of cells and germs. This blood count, that temperature and a rash, for example, will definitely equal a sickness which physicians can prevent by cut & dried technique. Then Medicine will cease to be a fine art, will become an exact science...
Reader Winks quibbles. Exact words of the Committee: ". . . The University needed educational leadership, such as under the circumstances could not have been expected from a man of Dr. Kerr's antecedents and former associations."-ED. Owens' Heel...
...admits more readily than a good psychologist that psychology is not an exact science. Whereas in a few departments its methods may approach mathematical precision, in others, like research on character and personality, the procedures are just reaching the point where results of any clarity at all are possible. Yet into this hazy realm psychologists feel justified in pushing, and in reporting therefrom their findings, so long as, like good scientists, they warn the reader of factors that may obfuscate the conclusions. With no less than nine such warnings, Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, head of Stanford University's psychology...
...associate since the close of 1911, he brought to the service of the Bank an unremitting and loyal attention to every duty, a breadth of contact and experience that proved increasingly valuable, an exact and candid judgment dominated by principle and a crystal conscience...