Word: exaction
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...ever valid reasons for the study of Latin, we cannot refrain from repeating a recent piece of testimony. In speaking here informally to a group of students interested in law, Dean Roscoe Pound put great emphasis on the value of Latin and Greek, together with mathematics, as discipline in exact thinking. "In languages and in mathematics two and two always make four, while in the social sciences they may make five," the Dean said in effect, adding that rigorous adherence to the "two and two make four" rule is essential...
...order to obviate the possibility of my assuming a premium payment in excess of the amount contributed, it is necessary that I have an early reply to my letter so that the Class may know the exact conditions before they are scattered through spring activities, examinations, and graduation. James Roosevelt '30. Treasurer Class...
...slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, flew to the defense, said that Professor Lowell's calculations for the position of the planet were approximations, not claimed to be exact; that Lowell Observatory was slow moving, sure of itself, had not given out information until thoroughly checked...
...from 18 to 25. In 1920 when the country was very 'dry' as a result of strict war-time prohibition, the undergraduate must have been between 8 and 15 years old. Hence those who voted on Tuesday and Wednesday formed their first impressions of the liquor situation at the exact period which wets choose as a starting point for their misleading statistics. By way of illustration, in 1911 there were somewhat more than four deaths per 100,000 due to alcoholism; in 1920 the dryest period in history, the figures were a little more than...