Word: exaction
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There has been the usual amount of come-on in the French press during the past week anent the exact location of the next...
...inspired by the free-trade policy. It has aroused new hopes among people who were beginning to despair of ever being offered a straight forward constructive policy as a remedy for our unemployment and poor trade." In point of fact the Beavermere scheme for "Empire Free Trade" is the exact reverse of '"straight-forward." Trade is to be free within the Empire, but around the Empire is to rise a tariff wall. Deliberately contradictory, this '"straight-for ward" scheme has been denounced in Parliament by all three parties (TIME, Feb. 10), a fact of which the manifesto proceeded...
...attained order and well-being greater than it has known for 2,000 years . . . duty of protecting the Egyptians . . . guard them against the inevitable tyranny of the Pashas!" Verdict: Pink-and-White has a tongue of talent, should prove a useful "regular" to the conservatives, seems to be the exact antithesis of Oliver Baldwin (son of Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin) who has grown a beard, turned Socialist...
Avenue with palaces, considered that the proper kind of a house to build in Asheville, N. C., was an exact replica of a Renaissance French chateau...
...account for this rapid expansion, Eatonists give credit to neither stock manipulations nor managerial ability. His special genius is in organization. Speaking in exact, ministerial tones, casting penetrating looks from his blue eyes, he wields great power when it comes to exhorting ancient industrial rivals to quell their jealousies and lock their arms in Christian fashion before fighting the fight for bigger profits...