Word: exaction
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...than three weeks ago, and after a short period of sickness was taken to the hospital for an operation, which was performed on December 11. His condition was considered critical for a time but he seemed to be on the road to recovery right up until last night. The exact nature of his illness was not revealed...
...exact reason why Harvard has never had a boxing team is rather difficult to discover. Certainly it isn't on account of lack of material, because there have always been more men taking their exercise with the boxing gloves than with the polo mallet; and a polo team has never been criticized as unjustified...
Although Mr. Bingham's statement Monday announcing the appointment of Charles J. Whiteside to the Harvard crew coaching staff deliberately omitted mention of the exact post Mr. Whiteside would hold upon his arrival in Cambridge, dispatches from Syracuse indicate that he is coming under the definite understanding that he is to be head coach. Before he actually takes up his duties as chief rowing mentor, however, it is to be hoped that a definite understanding will be reached on the inter-relation of the crew candidates, the head coach his assistants, Mr. Bingham, and the various groups of alumni...
...Chief military recommendation by the late Secretary: "Definite progress in mechanization, motorization and material preparedness is demanded by the nature of modern military power. . . . War has entered the field of the exact sciences...
...coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake shook ships. Nine of the 21 cables across the North Atlantic tore apart. Cable repair boats, always waiting for trouble, sped from ports to a point about 900 miles northeast of Manhattan. The breaks were found by exact instruments which measure the resistance of a continuous electrical conductor. Great grappling hooks groped for the cables on the sea floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restore the intercourse of the hemispheres. Every half minute an earthquake occurs somewhere on earth. Great ones powerful enough to destroy towns...