Word: exaction
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...expression, "Hobson's Choice" originated in the stables back of the Bull Hotel (now the hotel garage). Hostler Hobson insisted upon exact rotation of his horses and always told students to "take your choice, as long as you take the one nearest the door...
...them lying around my mother's apartment here, a week or more old, and read the wisecracks without looking at the dates. you copied an article in the division called People, from the Herald Tribune to the effect that Hendrik van Loon, Hendrik Willem van Loon to be exact, had arrived in America and groaned at the prospect of his son's becoming an interpretative dancer (TIME, July 20). And that son you called Hendrik Willem van Loon Jr. That's all very well except for two mistakes, first of all Hendrik van Loon...
Opposition leaders were willing to help. Liberal David Lloyd George was still sick abed, but exact reports of what went on at the Labor councils were carried to his bedside. Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin left Aix-les-Bains, rushed back from vacation to confer mightily with Scot MacDonald...
...shut off during the daytime as well as at night. And when last week Simmons Co. reported its July sales (down 17.3% from last year) an important footnote was appended. Since Berkey & Gay no longer operates, Simmons Co. has written its entire investment off the books. The exact price of this investment has not been revealed, but in 1928 Berkey & Gay had $4,251,000 in plants and equipment alone...
...spurts of fire burst from the windows, from nearby roofs. Two police captains were killed, several schupos were wounded. Riot squads tore through the streets. Searchlights flickered on the houses and the Communists, dragging their wounded with them, were driven from building to building. About midnight firing ceased. No exact casualty lists were published. Most editors estimated 14 deaths, about 50 wounded...