Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...based mainly on literary criticism and discussion rather than on the mechanics of translation and the dialectics of philology. An effort should be made to encourage general reading at sight in Latin and Greek, and to exclude, as much as possible, the laborious work of choosing the most exact English with which to render the original...
...pictured Coolidge in Death a great help to medicine and a good example to the nation, exclaimed: "I only hope an autopsy will be performed. If the family will permit it. they will be doing a great service in stimulating public demand for such post-mortem determination of the exact cause of death. It will do much to eliminate the existing, and foolish, American repugnance to autopsies...
...generally associated in the minds of simple citizens with 33 A. D., when Christ is believed to have died. . . . Uncertainty takes away nothing from the greatness of the infinite number of benefits we have received. If the men of 2033 find more certain calculations for fixing the exact date they will know how to do their duty as we do ours...
...Casting several metals in one mold was a matter of memorizing the exact melting points of the various special alloys he employed. There was no welding. To cast a girl with a golden arm and a silver dress, for example, the arm would be cast first. When cool the hot silver alloy would be sucked into the same mold. Heat of the silver would fuse the arm to the body...
Unavailable for another two weeks are the exact formulas for Alfred Lenzls alloys, his special modeling wax, the compositions for his molds and the famed Flexible Flask. On his death these, with a number of diagrams and explanatory sketches, were left to his brother and two sisters who in turn deeded the process (which might have brought then a great deal of money from commercial foundries) to the American Artists Professional League. The A. A. P. L. in turn handed the Lenz Process to the Sculpture Society as an organization better equipped to make use of it. All the final...