Word: exaction
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...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...
...conducted by Hackman Otto Lewis. This is what he read: "The MEANEST RIDER! He rides from Jackson Heights to 52d street & 6th Ave. Just an old grouch as mean as he looks and he looks terrible. Grumbles from the minute he enters your cab until he pays you the exact fare. . . ." And so on for six lacerating paragraphs to the conclusion: "The name of the man who has the somewhat dubious reputation of being . . . the world's worst rider, is Darling...
...going to build another tube, an exact duplicate of the last one. I will have it completed . . . within two months. But this time the launching will be different...
...researches disclose, there is no authentic, portrait in existence and no exact description of his appearance. The statues in the national capital and in the Vermont State House were posed by Ethan's nephew...
...return of Carol to the throne of Rumania is sure to affect more than the internal situation in that country. The new king, while something of an enigma to political students, is known to have very definite ideas about international affairs. The exact nature or import of these ideas is a question which will occupy the attention of more than one European foreign secretary until such time as some actual portents are visible...