Word: exaction
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...been an increasing fad in the cinema for the last two years and this picture is its apotheosis. There are some 19 shots of real sporting events at Manhattan's famed arena (which does not resemble a garden and is about two miles from Madison Square). An exact replica of the Garden marquee was made in Hollywood and reappears constantly. The faces of Jack Johnson, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tommy Ryan, Billy Papke and Tod Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles...
...Authorities dispute the exact location but most agree that "Eden" was somewhere in what is now Irak...
...desk, a dustless chalk, a shineless blackboard, hygienic methods of ventilation-these school details and many another have been well thought out. But punishment is still crude, unscientific, oldfashioned. You cane one child, thwack another, smack a third. Why should chastisement not be up-to-date, simple, exact? So ran the musings of a smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane is caused to swish down, with precisely regulated force and direction...
...cannot be denied that the exact figures of the case show football games as distinctly golden eggs in the H.A.A. basket. To decry this, moreover, is to overlook the fact that these profits go to support the many other athletics that have a place in the Harvard calendar. The chief fly in the gravy is the scale of prices which make attendance at football games so expensive for the average undergraduate or graduate student...
...survey of real estate is being made in Cleveland in order to determine the city's exact needs, prevent an unjustified boom in the case of an upturn. But before there can be a boom the 24% vacancy in apartments will have to be filled...