Word: exaction
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TIME'S authority: Thomas Beer's The Mauve Decade. But Subscriber Lewis' version, minimizing hoots & jeers, is perhaps more exact...
...Sever, from 1716 to 1826 a tutor at Harvard College, at that time considered a position of great honor, has been loaned by his descendents. It is uncommon in that the 30 or more pieces are still intact, with the exception of a silver twoquart tankard, which is the exact replica of the one which is mentioned in his original inventory. Chafingdishes, candlesticks, salvers, porringers, a teapot, and a pair of salt-cellars complete the collection...
...should use it for an Eye Institute.* Pathologists can describe diseased eye conditions. Ophthalmologists can treat and cure a great many of the diseases. But knowledge of the causes of some of those diseases, for example cataract, is hypothetical. Even the physiology of the normal eye is not an exact science. Reason for ophthalmologic inexactness doubtless lies in the nature of the human crowd. Two generations ago the medical crowd herded toward contagious diseases. A generation ago the crowd swerved toward tuberculosis. Currently there are three bright foci of attention-cancer, heart disease, pneumonia. Cancer, through its experts, has made...
...dead-line with his copy last night, and it was only his stern sense of duty that makes it possible for his readers to peruse their favorite column this morning (courtesy of the Vagabond). He was many miles away, in the hither-flung regions of New Hampshire, to be exact, and was engrossed in taking a vacation. Business was a bit slack, so he wired his old friend, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the able prognosticator, to come out of his mysterious retreat.... its whereabouts are known only to the Vagabond, his boon companion.... and off they went to the upper...
...exact nature of the design could not be learned last night, but it is believed that it was executed under the direction of Harvard authorities...