Word: exaction
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...Declaration in effect created the Executive Committee of the Congress a Government of Independent India and authorized this Government to: 1) Proclaim "civil disobedience" to the British Raj; 2) Order nonpayment of taxes; 3) Command the desertion of the 200,000 native troops in the British Indian Army; 4) Exact the resignation of native members of the nine Provincial Legislative Councils, which flourish as puppet congresses under British tutelage; 5) And finally to do any or all of these things at such time as members of the Government may deem best...
...matter of student aid in facing the new cost of living must wait for attention at Harvard until the exact scale of expenses in houses as compared with the present is known. An effective solution might be the use of the money for a direct endowment of the houses that would eliminate the need of the secondary form of student...
...French Line now has under construction a ship designed to be bigger than the Leviathan or Majestic, faster than the Bremen, and German hearts are sore that Frenchmen are about to worst them. The supership, as yet nameless, is being built with utmost secrecy as to exact details, in the largest French shipyards, Societé Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, which had to be enlarged for the purpose by demolishing an entire block of buildings at the upper end of the shipway-a waste tut-tutted by thrifty Frenchmen...
...exact nature of this last word is not quite clear, but Professor Rogers very evidently feels that a serious situation of some kind exists among colleges in general, and at Harvard in particular. He speaks of a "breakdown in the social organization" and although he implies his belief that the House Plan is a step in the right direction and not altogether false, yet he says it is plainly "artificial". In the first place it violates a Harvard tradition not necessarily a good one but nevertheless a tradition--of individualism. In the second place, a system of fraternities...
...accounted for by The Living Church Annual, thus: ''It should be remembered that the attempt to count membership on a basis of baptized persons instead of communicants goes back only two years, and the reports for the previous years included estimates in a number of places, the exact record not being available . . . the decrease shown this year is probably not an actual decrease, but rather a closer approximation to exact figures...