Word: exaction
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Thus the $19,261,432.50 which France owed the U. S. last week was a bagatelle which no Frenchman, in the Chamber or out of it, suggested that France could not pay. Matter of fact the exact amount of gold due the U. S. on Dec. 15 had been packed in boxes at Paris several days earlier and arrangements were complete to ship it this week on S. S. Manhattan, Pennland, Europa...
...Casting several metals in one mold was a matter of memorizing the exact melting points of the various special alloys he employed. There was no welding. To cast a girl with a golden arm and a silver dress, for example, the arm would be cast first. When cool the hot silver alloy would be sucked into the same mold. Heat of the silver would fuse the arm to the body...
Unavailable for another two weeks are the exact formulas for Alfred Lenzls alloys, his special modeling wax, the compositions for his molds and the famed Flexible Flask. On his death these, with a number of diagrams and explanatory sketches, were left to his brother and two sisters who in turn deeded the process (which might have brought then a great deal of money from commercial foundries) to the American Artists Professional League. The A. A. P. L. in turn handed the Lenz Process to the Sculpture Society as an organization better equipped to make use of it. All the final...
...making such changes as these there is of course one danger, to be averted at any cost, that Biology A degenerate into a general survey; laboratory, investigation and exact knowledge must remain the foundation material of any science course...
...need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her national aims, needs a first rate instruction in history at once." Other countries have various forces which contribute to national unity, such as the language in France and the traditions of literature and art in Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor...