Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expenses for the use of Sanders have figured prominently in the activities of theater groups. The charges are certainly legitimate; they could well he expected to be the same in any commercial theater. But the University seems only too determined to exact its pound of flesh. The bills are presented in a business-like fashion, and are expected to be paid promptly. If a play flops, the bills are still there, clamoring for payment just as loudly as bills of outside establishments...
...will carry a separate request for reconsideration of the New Student's status to Provost Buck some time within the next two weeks. The exact wording of the protest will be settled at the next meeting of HYD executives...
...vote indicates a solidly realistic attitude toward the Marshall Plan among the persons at the meeting. It indicates an awareness of the fact that some sort of Marshall Plan is going to be passed by Congress, and that constructive action can only be in terms of influencing the exact outcome of that inevitable legislation. And the vote further indicates a clearcut realization that unless some sort of influence can be leveled at Congress, the Marshall Plan may well turn out to be more of a danger than a boon to world peace and international economic stability...
...polls, is about to go out of business; he discovers the "magic town," a village which has the precise proportion of doctors, lawyers, Republicans, Democrats, loiterers, etc., as does the entire nation; he goes there, on the theory that an analysis of the town's opinion will reveal the exact opinion of the whole country; he goes anonymously, realizing that the town must not become self-conscious about its representative nature; his secret leaks out; the town becomes a tremendous sensation throughout the nation; it has a boom; in the process, it loses its head and its representative quality; this...
Whatever the exact course of the conversation, it was clear that Stassen had singled out Bob Taft as the man to campaign against and he was bulling ahead at full speed. He seemed fully aware of the risks of his new course. In Ohio, Taftmen had promptly set to raiding the slates of Stassen delegates, pressured others to stay out of the primary, confidently talked of capturing all of Ohio's 53 votes for Taft. But Stassen supporters figured that he was sure to pick up at least ten, enough to put a big crimp in Bob Taft...