Word: exaction
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...bringing out 500 copies daily of a sheetlet called the Commercial Chronicle. (Last week he had forgotten its name.) Around the A. P. membership and a skeleton staff, Publisher Thomason built his tabloid Daily Times. So friendly were he and the Tribune that he made his paper an exact copy of the Tribune's lusty Manhattan tabloid brother, the Daily News...
...difficult to ascertain the exact physical and mental handicaps undergone by the average undergraduate working for his living. Certainly he encounters fewer difficulties than if he were struggling alone; here he finds others interested in his own cause. True, undergraduate self-support means addition to the effort of maintenance to the effort of education, which naturally lends to decrease efficiency of education but given greater appreciation of its value. But self-supporting groups composed of only the so-called bright would signalize the failure of democratic education...
...also to keep a skeleton organization under the supervision of the present members at work during the summer months. This is an innovation in the work of the Bureau and should considerably increase the assistance it is able to render to the needy people of Cambridge. The exact plan of the summer organization is still tentative, but will be confirmed and announced in the near future...
...notified the parents. All three ran back upstairs. The first thing they did was to inspect the floor to see if the child had crawled somewhere. He had not. One more look around the room disclosed muddy footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have had no idea of the overwhelming glare of press and police activity which was shortly to ignite in his remote...
...American Institute for Secretaries, will give a brief statement of the aims of the Institute. There will be a preliminary report on the findings of Professor F. G. Nichols, in connection with two pieces of research. The first is a study for the Institute, to determine the exact status of the "private" or "personal secretary" with respect to duties performed, personality traits required, previous positions held, and training needed. The second is a study to determine whether or not the results of teaching commercial arithmetic a full year as a separate subject, in the early part of the high school...