Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although barographs had yet to be calibrated for exact measurements, youthful John K. ("Jack") O'Meara of New York and Martin Hermann Schempp of Pittsburgh shone as individual stars. In their sailplanes both pilots soared 68 mi. into Pennsylvania, O'Meara landing in the midst of a Girl Scout camp. The previous U. S. airline distance record was 10.9 mi., held by famed Hawley Bowlus. The world record of 136.8 mi. is Germany's. For altitude O'Meara's apparent 5,000 ft. was surpassed by Schempp's 5,400 ft. (world record: Austria...
...Heckled as to the exact meaning of the Lausanne settlement, gentleman's agreement and Accord de Confiance last week Premier Herriot told the Chamber flatly: "They mean that Frenchmen cannot be asked to pay more than they receive...
Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...
...Kramer's second charge, if I understand him correctly, raises two issues: (a) the power of the Liberal Club's Executive Committee to speak for the Club in public controversy, and (b) the exact relation between the Liberal Club and other student organizations such as the National Student League...
...Take away the newspaper-and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts-so far as we are able to know and publish them-the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria-feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . The collapse of an inflated era of spending has suddenly sobered the American public...