Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
...picture, as I remarked above, is to show the social structure of the Eskimo colonies. I cannot, of course, vouch for the accuracy with which this has been done; I imagine that the whole sequence has been rendered a bit too idyllic and too pleasantly pastoral to be an exact study, such as one might find in Prof. Tarbottom's third Ph.D. thesis on "Brow-ridge Variation in the Eskimo, with Concomitant Hypertrophy of the Frontal Sinuses." For all that, the photography is superb, the selection of scenes is accurate, and a coherent picture, a beautiful picture, is presented...
...forthcoming discovery is expected to give the final and complete formulae for chlorophyll A and chlorophyll B, two plant materials of extremely complex nature whose exact composition has never been accurately ascertained. At present the two leading theories as to its composition are those of Hans Fischer of Munich, and of President Conant. Mr. Conant's theory was advanced in 1932; and for his research he was awarded two medals, the William H. Nichols Medal and the Charles F. Chandler Medal...
Henceforth André Citroën will confine his automotive genius to production, leaving policies to his financial betters. Meantime an army of auditors swarmed over the Citroën ledgers. In Le Soir a realistic financial observer remarked: "It is impossible now to get any exact idea of the company's condition. ... In prosperous days, accounts meant little because increased demand and prices covered everything...
...exact source of the money which will make the continuation possible has not been definitely decided upon and will not be determined until the end of the present year. Prospects have been brighter for the past few months but it was expected that no decision would be made until spring. Rumors that President Conant was going to seek the money outside of the University were spiked by the announcement yesterday...