Word: exaction
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Such were last week's aviation casualties. Because the danger of flight is not willingly publicized by aviation companies, few laymen can get exact information about the risks involved. Last week the risks were discussed in an article entitled "Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than...
Recently that fight has loomed most noticeably in France. The Comite des Forges has decidedly not been a popular name in France. To be exact, it never WAS a popular name. Just as a politician in the United States was always against Wall Street during his campaign, so in France many a political victory has been won by accusing the opposition of being in the pay of the Comite des Forges. Of late, as political tension in France has grown hotter, so resentment against the De Wendels and the Schneiders has grown more bitter...
...some little time, it has been increasingly clear that post-war history is repeating prewar history. To make this point is almost to risk belaboring the obvious, but recept events continue to strengthen parallel. Inevitably, the similarities are not exact, and the analogies, or homologies, cannot be dealt with too. Literally, but nevertheless they exist...
...dragon. Everyone knew that dragons were as mythological as the Minotaur. But the tales kept coming and in 1912 Major P. W. Ouwens of Java's Buitzenborg Zoo dispatched collectors to Komodo. They brought back creatures which not only closely resembled an Eocene reptile but were also almost exact replicas of the St. George dragon. Zoologist Ouwens named the new species Varanns komodoensis. The lay world called it dragon lizard...
...pretty far. [ think we probably could have a reconciliation if I had time to think it over. Miss Gillespie's parents took the engagement ring away from her and the last I heard of it, it was in a vault down town. I don't know the exact value of the ring. You know, it is a 32-carat diamond, a part of the crown jewels of France. My father's mother bought it. . . . She willed it to my father, Col. John Jacob Astor. He willed it to me. I hope they return...