Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over five million dollars was yesterday discovered to be the sum which was left to Harvard University by the will of Ariemas Ward, former head of the well known advertising firm of that name, who died in 1925. The exact amount of the bequest, which totals $5,370,669, has never before been made public due to the fact that the gift went to an educational institution and was exempt from taxation...
...almost the exact centre of the human head, hanging from the base of the brain by a hollow stem, is the pituitary gland. Normally about the size of a large pea, in giants it may be as big as a hen's egg. It has two lobes, anterior & posterior. Like other endocrine glands it secretes hormones (exciters) into the blood. Doctors know less than they would like to know about the pituitary gland. They know it is intimately related to growth and sexual maturity; they believe its hormones regulate the functioning of all the other endocrines. Last week came...
This robust biography would have pleased its robust subject. It is written to the Roosevelt formula of history: "The exact truth . . . our disasters and shortcomings as well as our triumphs." Without too finicky mental analysis Biographer Pringle has painted the bouncing, bubbling, sometimes bumptious career of "Teddy'' (he loathed that nickname)? the sickly child who messed around with dead frogs; the dudish State legislator who "rose like a rocket"; the Civil Service Commissioner who warred with Postmaster General John Wanamaker on the spoils system; the New York City Police Commissioner who brought the town down about his ears...
According to all statements, from that of the coach to that of members of the college, nothing but gloom has pervaded the football atmosphere in the New Hampshire hills. However the Big Green has only to exact a tie out of the Crimson today in order to leave themselves still in a 5 to 4 lead in the post-war series of the two colleges. On the whole string of games Harvard has won 18 as against its rival's seven, but until the resumption of football relations after the war the New Hampshire players had only vanquished the Cambridge...
...would not refer to this item, were it not that my entirely unselfish desire to help a most worthy international good-will cause was indirectly responsible for the insertion of the original advertisement, the exact wording of which I did not see until after it was printed. The philanthropic Honorary Secretary of that worthy cause had suggested to me that much help for its needed funds could be obtained if I would deliver some public addresses in its favor. I replied that, while I could not appropriately do that, I would gladly contribute the proceeds of honorariums which might...