Word: exaction
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According to all statements, from that of the coach to that of members of the college, nothing but gloom has pervaded the football atmosphere in the New Hampshire hills. However the Big Green has only to exact a tie out of the Crimson today in order to leave themselves still in a 5 to 4 lead in the post-war series of the two colleges. On the whole string of games Harvard has won 18 as against its rival's seven, but until the resumption of football relations after the war the New Hampshire players had only vanquished the Cambridge...
...would not refer to this item, were it not that my entirely unselfish desire to help a most worthy international good-will cause was indirectly responsible for the insertion of the original advertisement, the exact wording of which I did not see until after it was printed. The philanthropic Honorary Secretary of that worthy cause had suggested to me that much help for its needed funds could be obtained if I would deliver some public addresses in its favor. I replied that, while I could not appropriately do that, I would gladly contribute the proceeds of honorariums which might...
Quite frankly the Vagabond has never cared deeply for Wordsworth. He exhibits, in his poetry, too frank an interest in the exact size of a newly dug grave, or the precise circumference of a huntsman's swollen ankle. But he has compensated for this rather crass precision by developing an excellent and timely theory to the effect that the world is too much with us. And so the Vagabond will go today to hear Sholley, Keats, and Wordsworth as they troop across the platform, and to see them bow gracefully, when they pass Professor Lowes...
...York, and is a model faithful in every detail. There are in miniature the wireless towers, the huts, and the paths across the ice over which the loads of supplies and equipment were carried. The lighting within the glass case is so controlled as to produce an exact representation of the polar day, growing gradually in brilliance, then fading away into Antarctic night, when the beacon-lights atop the wireless towers shine out across the frigid wastes...
...days; more or less violent ones every 11, 19, 22 and 33 years. To predict the approximate time & place of recurrence requires no great mathematical skill, especially if the seismologist has up-to-the-minute reports of the earthy quaverings going on all the time. To forecast the exact day and region as Cabinet-Maker Bendandi did last week, does, however, require a bold imagination...