Word: exaction
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...After a lapse of 28 years," wrote Viscount Kaneko, "I do not pretend to repeat the exact word of the President, but their substance made an ineffaceable impression which can never be forgotten as long as I live...
...constant concern would be the restoration of the world economy. But not at all. Senator McKellar's notion of how to serve the people of Tennessee is to treat their customers as if they were brigands. And to what end? That the United States Treasury should continue to exact from their customers payments which, if not received, must be borne by the taxpayers of the United States...
Although barographs had yet to be calibrated for exact measurements, youthful John K. ("Jack") O'Meara of New York and Martin Hermann Schempp of Pittsburgh shone as individual stars. In their sailplanes both pilots soared 68 mi. into Pennsylvania, O'Meara landing in the midst of a Girl Scout camp. The previous U. S. airline distance record was 10.9 mi., held by famed Hawley Bowlus. The world record of 136.8 mi. is Germany's. For altitude O'Meara's apparent 5,000 ft. was surpassed by Schempp's 5,400 ft. (world record: Austria...
...Heckled as to the exact meaning of the Lausanne settlement, gentleman's agreement and Accord de Confiance last week Premier Herriot told the Chamber flatly: "They mean that Frenchmen cannot be asked to pay more than they receive...
Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...