Word: exaction
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...Dawes walked his Chow dog Chung along the Olympic's promenade deck, puffed his underslung pipe. He was satisfied. Everything had been precise, prompt-his conference with the Secretary of State, his last talk with the President, his packing, his sailing. He had telegraphed to London asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest...
...exact origin of the Republican party few historians agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle Bovay, Ripon Whig. The stiff, dignified, stoop-shouldered lawyer from Wisconsin insisted a new party be formed on the slavery issue, suggested to Editor Greeley the name Republican. On March 20, 1854 when the Nebraska-Kansas Bill was pending in the Senate, Lawyer Bovay called a meeting of 58 persons at Ripon...
That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret votes. Many a good Senate friend has this (all, quick-stepping, dark-haired news-gatherer of 28. Through him early this year the public learned the secret vote whereby the Senate confirmed Roy Owen West as a Coolidge Secretary of the Interior (TIME, Feb. 4), the publication of which...
...discover that the boss's daughter and his stenographer are sisters under a very thin skin. At any rate this naive belief in the "right kind" of wife as a stepping stone to the happy life hardly does credit to an intellect which has spent many years over the exact sciences...
...Council has pointed out, the question of the exact nature of this service must be faced squarely. I believe that vocational information is of much greater value than vocational guidance. As I have tried to suggest in the articles I have written for the CRIMSON during the past months, the Vocational Counsellor should indicate the essential features of various businesses so that the student would be either attracted or repelled by the picture thus presented. If the student is interested, he will probably investigate the matter further; if repelled, he can cross off one branch of business from his list...