Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every week each "X" writes Managing Editor Charles Colebaugh of Collier's a breezy, detailed memorandum on business, politics, public sentiment in his section. The editors select three or four of the most interesting reports, have them mimeographed by a process which reproduces their exact original form (color of copy paper and typewriter ink, marginal notes, penciled corrections, etc.). To maintain the illusion of inside confidence, the scribbled initials of CC (Colebaugh), B (Editorial Director Thomas Hambly Beck) and WLC (Editor William Ludlow Chenery) appear at the top of each report. The week's selections are stapled together...
...about other people-who they are-what they are-what they are doing, and why they are doing it? ... All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel...
...clock without dial or hands regulates the other University time-pieces without deviating more than five seconds annually from the exact time. This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted...
...often made uneasy by the linguistic vagaries of contemporary poets. But Edna St. Vincent Millay is still a lucid poet. Though it is a modern belief that poets, to be audible at all, must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...
...whole Thyssen legend trembled. Eminent Groper Johannes Steel, author of The Second World War and dopester on Nazidom for Manhattan's Post, clarioned: "Fritz Thyssen is taking his money out of Germany. Thyssen, Germany's lord and master, has no confidence any more in Germany. . . . The exact amount of the capital which he managed to get out of Germany is not known, but it is certain to be no small sum, for several new Thyssen holding companies in South America are being formed...