Word: exaction
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...books, papers, magazines, nothing comes amiss. To me, but for its size, I've never come across a magazine which takes such a devil of a lot of reading, and you simply can't skip any. But what surprises me most is the circulation. A magazine the exact counterpart of yours published in London would have a circulation of three-quarters of a million in next to no time. I have always taken American newspapers with a large grain of salt and personally think ours far superior, but TIME is a dog of another colour altogether. Well, here...
...truth in the Hobbesian maxim that no discourse can end in absolute knowledge of fact, then it is fatuous to paraphrase a philosopher, and reviews of philosophic works are especially futile. Mr. Santayana, furthermore, is the kind of philosopher who seems always to use the right amount of exact words, and thus lends himself to quotation rather than to summary. He needs to be quoted for the vigor of his thought and for the lucidity of his style...
...horror the thing rushed up to a high rock and thrust its great head and neck a full ten feet out of the water and waved it about as if it were getting its bearings. It was some 500 yards away and I could not see the exact shape of its head, but it was much thicker than the body. Then it sank down into the water again and sped away, making a great wash of white foam...
...indeterminate factor, and perhaps the decisive one, is the Socialist Party. How powerful it is, one has no exact way of telling; the last elections are all but forgotten. But it may be that it is the real defence against an Anschluss, for though the Socialists hate Dollfuss, they hate the Nazis, Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party...
...Marlborough Street. After a long residence in the wilds of Cambridge Province he has at last returned to the metropolis; to the same house, in fact. Through the best domestic intelligence we learn that every book, every bridge-lamp, every objet d'art and ash tray is in the exact same spot, facing the very same way as during the reign of President Eliot. Maybe this homecoming was in President Lowell's mind when, in 1909, he had large photographs made of every room and every corner. By means of these pictures, probably similar to those police use in reconstructing...