Word: exaction
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...needs an unusually large cobra for his snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which is the exact size and shape required. For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc. Fortnight ago he published a book telling what an animal catcher ex-periences.- Animal Man Buck...
...schools and other agencies without as thorough equipment as should have been provided. The Harvard school will seek to remedy this defect. Students will be taught, for instance, to make maps of maxim accuracy; they will be trained in the use of wireless for the plotting of their exact positions, and in the skilled use of the new instruments of recent invention...
Tryouts for the musical end of the society will take place on October 7 and 8. A heavy program is being formulated at the present time and the exact schedule is to be announced at a later date. Several new members are necessary to assure a successful season. The first concert is to take place in Cambridge if adequate accommodations can be procured...
...statue was so close a likeness to the illustrious forbear whose weather beaten bronze presides over the old quadrangle that watchers were convinced that the original had been removed from his pedestal to participate in the event. The imitation, undoubtedly formed of plaster, was painted in the exact colors of green and grey which are seen on the original. Of the many features in the parade, which encompassed 40,000 participants, none aroused more comment than the amazing likeness of the founder of the University...
Just before a meeting (1908) between King Edward VII and the Tsar, the King called Sir Arthur to him. "He then asked him to explain the present nature and purposes of Russian policy; the exact names and past records of the Tsar's staff; the prospects of agriculture in Russia; whether the Emperor would wear the uniform of the Scots Greys or whether he would appear dressed as a Russian Admiral; what decorations he would wear and in what order; what about the Russian Railways; whether M. Stolypin spoke French, or German, or even English; what exactly were...