Word: exaction
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...these is an adrenalotropic hormone. When the pituitary gland fails to send enough adrenalotropic substance through the blood, then another set of glands, the adrenals, which are essential to life, wastes away. But the exact relation of hormones of the two glands is not yet clear...
...World's Fair. Said an employe of the airplane sightseeing service to the pilot: "Do you think it's safe for landings?" Replied Pilot Carl Vickery: ''I'll try one last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took...
Last week in Tampa, Fla. Barron Gift Collier,* famed organizer of car card advertising, virtually declared himself bankrupt. He did not use the exact word. What he said was that he could not pay all his debts immediately and wanted a moratorium. He thus became first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the new bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed the day before he left office...
...everyone knows, accounting is not an exact science. In every big balance sheet there is room for honest difference of opinion...
...even get the manuscript into my hands for a moment to give you an exact estimate of its length, so anxiously is our leader guarding...