Word: exaction
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...illustrated rather more amusingly than usual in last night's Transcript. The inspiration for the article in question is the state of affairs in Widener Library. Here, it appears, there is a considerable sum of money set aside for the purchase of books in French, dealing with the exact sciences, and nothing else. There are also funds for the acquisition of books on Siam, California, and for volumes once owned by Coleridge, and annotated by him. This money can not be spent for anything other than the particular field mentioned by the donor, whether more important purchases...
Information has not been divulged as to the exact nature of the plot, but it is generally known that part of the play takes place on the ocean, and that the authors of the creation have been busy on the lyrics and music on and off for about a year...
...based mainly on literary criticism and discussion rather than on the mechanics of translation and the dialectics of philology. An effort should be made to encourage general reading at sight in Latin and Greek, and to exclude, as much as possible, the laborious work of choosing the most exact English with which to render the original...
...pictured Coolidge in Death a great help to medicine and a good example to the nation, exclaimed: "I only hope an autopsy will be performed. If the family will permit it. they will be doing a great service in stimulating public demand for such post-mortem determination of the exact cause of death. It will do much to eliminate the existing, and foolish, American repugnance to autopsies...
...generally associated in the minds of simple citizens with 33 A. D., when Christ is believed to have died. . . . Uncertainty takes away nothing from the greatness of the infinite number of benefits we have received. If the men of 2033 find more certain calculations for fixing the exact date they will know how to do their duty as we do ours...