Word: exaction
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Labels on the pieces of wood, each neatly sawed off to exact, six-foot lengths, bore addresses to three different dormitories in Princeton, N. J. The attendant remarked, "The boys said that they were worth a good $35 apiece...
...often made uneasy by the linguistic vagaries of contemporary poets. But Edna St. Vincent Millay is still a lucid poet. Though it is a modern belief that poets, to be audible at all, must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...
...whole Thyssen legend trembled. Eminent Groper Johannes Steel, author of The Second World War and dopester on Nazidom for Manhattan's Post, clarioned: "Fritz Thyssen is taking his money out of Germany. Thyssen, Germany's lord and master, has no confidence any more in Germany. . . . The exact amount of the capital which he managed to get out of Germany is not known, but it is certain to be no small sum, for several new Thyssen holding companies in South America are being formed...
...backfield, the same state of flux exists and nobody can tell whether Chet Litman or Freddy Moseley will get the call against the Tiger. As a matter of fact, judging from the Dartmouth game, the exact situations in the backfield mean very little, since Coach Casey may choose to run his plays from any of the four positions...
...Cabinet. As Chief Regent, pallid Prince Paul had his hands full last week when he opened King Alexander's political testament. The testament was couched in such terms that Prince Paul felt obliged to exact the resignation of Premier Uzunovitch who, of course, was furious...