Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue...
...engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner...
...exact rules for registration had been issued only the day before and those who filed did so merely on the general terms of the law.* Each registration, filed in triplicate with exhibits, was a fair sized volume in itself. By comparison an income tax return was a venture in first grade arithmetic. The staff of the Trade Commission's new Bureau of Securities was faced with a mountain of work. Nonetheless they set to, eagerly seeking errors in the applications, promptly found some unaccompanied by checks or by checks uncertified...
...these is an adrenalotropic hormone. When the pituitary gland fails to send enough adrenalotropic substance through the blood, then another set of glands, the adrenals, which are essential to life, wastes away. But the exact relation of hormones of the two glands is not yet clear...
...World's Fair. Said an employe of the airplane sightseeing service to the pilot: "Do you think it's safe for landings?" Replied Pilot Carl Vickery: ''I'll try one last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took...