Word: exaction
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...Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session of the 74th Congress. . . ." Applause. ''More than 20 of our colleagues-26 to be exact-are now either in hospitals or at their homes suffering from heart trouble or a nervous breakdown.* This Congress has worked long and faithfully and well, and, personally, I insist that the Senate bring its business quickly to an end. . . ." More applause. "In my opinion it will be welcomed...
Reformed Church Messenger: "We do not believe it will pay the movie company attorney to exact this pound of flesh...
Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
...will be resolved into simple factors of chemistry and physics of cells and germs. This blood count, that temperature and a rash, for example, will definitely equal a sickness which physicians can prevent by cut & dried technique. Then Medicine will cease to be a fine art, will become an exact science...
...admits more readily than a good psychologist that psychology is not an exact science. Whereas in a few departments its methods may approach mathematical precision, in others, like research on character and personality, the procedures are just reaching the point where results of any clarity at all are possible. Yet into this hazy realm psychologists feel justified in pushing, and in reporting therefrom their findings, so long as, like good scientists, they warn the reader of factors that may obfuscate the conclusions. With no less than nine such warnings, Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, head of Stanford University's psychology...