Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should use it for an Eye Institute.* Pathologists can describe diseased eye conditions. Ophthalmologists can treat and cure a great many of the diseases. But knowledge of the causes of some of those diseases, for example cataract, is hypothetical. Even the physiology of the normal eye is not an exact science. Reason for ophthalmologic inexactness doubtless lies in the nature of the human crowd. Two generations ago the medical crowd herded toward contagious diseases. A generation ago the crowd swerved toward tuberculosis. Currently there are three bright foci of attention-cancer, heart disease, pneumonia. Cancer, through its experts, has made...
...dead-line with his copy last night, and it was only his stern sense of duty that makes it possible for his readers to peruse their favorite column this morning (courtesy of the Vagabond). He was many miles away, in the hither-flung regions of New Hampshire, to be exact, and was engrossed in taking a vacation. Business was a bit slack, so he wired his old friend, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the able prognosticator, to come out of his mysterious retreat.... its whereabouts are known only to the Vagabond, his boon companion.... and off they went to the upper...
...exact nature of the design could not be learned last night, but it is believed that it was executed under the direction of Harvard authorities...
Last week he was paralyzed. Numbness crept up his legs, to his midriff. Nonetheless he was desperately at work to recheck and recheck figures which indicated that Light's exact speed was very close to 186,285 miles per second. He dictated a brief introduction to the scientific report of the experiment. Not before that was finished did Albert Abraham Michelson's guard go down and Death's numbness creep into his heart...
...name of which I have forgotten." Apparently both the Times reporter and the Selection Committee had forgotten Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island too. A few days later indignant letter writers informed the Royal Academy that the picture was not only an illustration for Treasure Island, but an exact copy of the frontispiece of John Seymour Lucas' illustrated edition. Embarrassed, Sir William Llewellyn ordered the picture removed...