Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats in the stadium for 15 years, could they possibly keep their record intact and give him the worst in the stadium for the sixteenth year. He figured his frankness might get him a seat right back of the team, but his strategy backfired. He was placed in the exact center of the steel stands in row A. As they had used the north end for haying that year, he didn't get a very good view of the proceedings...
Circulators of the letters did not reveal the exact totals as of last night...
Major Clement Attlee, the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, asked if it were not "unprecedented" to indulge .in such a hocus-pocus of exchanging non-diplomatic agents. "I do not know of any exact precedents for this situation," replied the Prime Minister, but afterward the Foreign Office's adept precedent-finders found two. There are "British agents" today in Ethiopia and in Manchukuo, they pointed out, and their presence has not constituted recognition by His Majesty's Government of either the empire in Ethiopia or the empire in Manchukuo...
...centuries, first for the powerful "communist" Inca kings, later for their Spanish conquerors, an endless stream of gold flowed to their high capitals from mines deep in the gorges of the Andes. Forced labor was used and few except the conquered Indians and their masters knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about...
Among the major causes for the bear market which has existed since March were the smash that month of the British commodity boom and a simultaneous dishoarding of gold under rumors that the U. S. was about to raise the gold value of the dollar. Last week almost the exact reverse of this situation became evident. U. S. commodity prices were almost all at the year's cheapest and the Dow-Jones commodity index declined 3.26 to 52.60, a new low since 1935. Cotton was down to 7.70? per lb., wheat to 86? per bu., copper...