Word: exaction
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...would be, roughly speaking, only half the battle. Much of the noise of planes - some say 50%, some say "most" is caused by the propeller itself.*The Aeronautics Research Division of the Department of Commerce has been studying the problem for two years, is still uncertain as to the exact process by which propeller noise is created. Of the solution, however, it is certain : "The only positive method known of reducing propeller noise is to reduce the tip speed by using a geared propeller." Geared propellers are in use, will be more generally adopted as difficulties of weight and construction...
Walter Russell, president of the Society of Arts and Sciences, former editor of Colliers Weekly, and a well-known artist and sculptor, declares that the average student in Harvard has no opportunity to develop the aesthetic side of his nature but is forced to devote all his time to exact studies unless he deliberately selects art as his field of concentration. What Russell suggests as a remedy is either a required course in art or a course of such a nature that it can be taken in addition to regular subjects without too much added work in the form...
...years have passed, the work in our shops has become finer and has called for an increasing amount of ... fine coordination between hand and brain. . . . 'Any use of alcohol at all seems to destroy that exact coordination. . . . We rarely have to discharge the drinkers. They discharge themselves?a man will not stick at a job on which he is falling down...
...might easily have become an adept forger. From his early days as one of the founders of Cubism he has been ceaselessly experimenting, changing his style of drawing, his palette. His studio in the Rue de la Boétie is precise as a laboratory, he is meticulously exact in keeping appointments. He is not only one of the highest priced* but one of the most scientific modern painters...
...shot. They were acting for Christ Patras, a north-side restaurant man, who represented Jack Zuta, business manager for the Aiello-Moran gang. When my employers went to collect the $10,000 promised them by Patras, he balked, was killed. Zuta was killed two months afterward." Not in those exact words but to that effect, Prisoner Frank Bell last week spoke rapidly to a Chicago coroner's jury, made Chicago's big crime news of the week. Prisoner Bell had been in gaol since June for robbery & murder. His friend Sullivan was jailed in July for the Patras...