Word: exaction
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...Genealogist John Horace Round that the law specifically states that the throne shall go to the eldest son, does not specifically state that it shall go to the eldest daughter in case of a girl. Other papers taking it up, called for an Act of Parliament to fix the exact status of the newborn baby...
...more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?and here the Earl makes several bows to Henry Ford. The last essay wanders a bit, forecasting an exact psychology that will sweep falsehood and pretense from the earth, leaving little that is so interesting as a brilliant, plagiaristic Earl...
...addition to many miraculous etchings, there are hundreds of paintings signed with his name. Of these J. C. Van Dyke says 48 are genuine, but Hofstede de Groot lists 998, and controversy is wrathful. His character and temperament must be deduced largely from his paintings, a work requiring exact study. Herr Ludwig presents a changeable, sensual, weak figure that does not convince...
...Hoover recalled Secretary of Agriculture Hyde from a western trip, announced that the Federal Government would "leave no stone unturned" to give assistance to stricken husbandmen. With experienced directness the President took charge personally. Rapidly assembled at his order were Department of Agriculture reports by field agents on the exact location and degree of drought damage. Hardest hit apparently were Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska. President Hoover summoned the governors of these twelve states to a White House conference this week to devise specific plans for relief. Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm...
...Heine emphasized that contact glasses must be fitted only by highly experienced ophthalmologists, for the danger of an ill-trained man injuring his patient's eyes is great. For fitting such glasses 39 lenses are necessary. The only firm which grinds these highly exact lenses is the Zeiss Works at Jena. The lenses must be curved on their inner (concave) side almost but not exactly to match the curve of the eyeballs. Nor may their optical curve be exactly that of ordinary eyeglasses. Contact lenses are held against the eyeballs by the capillary suction of tear water. Thin though...