Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Original plans for the Akron prescribed a lift of 221,000 lb. for the airship herself, and capacity for a useful load of 182,000 Ib. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics estimated that the ship will be 19,000 to 20,000 Ib. overweight. The exact figure cannot be determined until after the final strips of covering are applied to the envelope and the ship is "weighed off" with lifting gas. By its contract with...
...game of pool or billiards or bowling-in-the-alley provides a simple illustration of what this great Indian and his colleagues are saying in the exact phrases of science. Pool is somewhat the best of the three illustrations...
TIME'S authority: Thomas Beer's The Mauve Decade. But Subscriber Lewis' version, minimizing hoots & jeers, is perhaps more exact...
...oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
...Sever, from 1716 to 1826 a tutor at Harvard College, at that time considered a position of great honor, has been loaned by his descendents. It is uncommon in that the 30 or more pieces are still intact, with the exception of a silver twoquart tankard, which is the exact replica of the one which is mentioned in his original inventory. Chafingdishes, candlesticks, salvers, porringers, a teapot, and a pair of salt-cellars complete the collection...