Word: exaction
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...from a state in which the revolution was considered only in so far as it was capable of universal application to one in which the revolution has been identified and merged with the traditional policy of Russia, and has assumed the attributes of Russian nationalism. Here there is an exact analogy to the development of France in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when the Republic slowly deserted its universalist notions for strictly nationalist ones. The decline of the Third international in power and prestige until it has reached a point where the Trotskyites propose to establish a Fourth...
...first place, the decision to hold a demonstration was made by a very small bloc of the Liberal Club, a bloc, to be exact, which constitutes less than one seventh of its membership. This group, in the absence of the regular leaders of the club, struck upon the demonstration as an opportunity to disseminate peace propaganda without any reference to its consequences, either to the Liberal Club or to Harvard. The Liberal Club itself is a minority organization, and this bloc was a minority within a minority, but it would have been awkward to explain a deliberate affront to West...
...more exact, a dogie is a calf whose mama has died and whose papa has run off with another...
...late. The trouble seems to lie in the rules committee and not with the officials, and there the blame should rest and the responsibility assumed. For our part, 'we extend our sincere sympathy to the harassed referee, who never is allowed to know what the exact rules are. They change so rapidly and extensively, and are so involved when finally evolved, that we often wonder how games are ever finished without more mistakes. The salient fact of the mistakes on Saturday is not that they would not have changed the outcome of the games in the case of reversed decisions...
...high excitation in it by electricity; they then examined the gas through a spectroscope and compared the results with the spectrum of the solar corona. Although a slight discrepancy appears in these observations, it can be readily accounted for by the inability to produce in the laboratory the exact conditions...