Word: exaction
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...inside court in the Freshman Athletic Building. The Divinity courts will be ready on Monday, but it is doubtful if there will be any outside practice until after vacation. At that time a tournament will be held for those remaining on the squad to determine the exact personnel of the team. Matches with outside schools will start within a week after the men return from vacation. About 15 men are to be retained on the team at the conclusion of the tournament...
...with the "nominal salary" suggested, but the need for a capable man to fill the position is so essential that means could undoubtedly be found to eliminate the latter requirement. The need is a real one, for even if it is not found to be possible to discover an exact work for which the doubting Senior is fitted, some such arrangement as the report offers would be invaluable in giving him the materials for making his own decision as to his future career...
...This system completely and adequately protects the Government's interest. With this picture of the procedure in mind it is difficult to see the exact point at which a public hearing could be properly injected. ... I respectfully urge that the provision for a public hearing on these matters be eliminated [from the bill]. . . . Whether the final decision of the Department should be a public document presents a somewhat different problem, though it would seem such action is open to most of the objections above enumerated...
...looks tome, said Mr. Kent 'like a misunderstanding by Colonel William Marcus of the exact provisions for the awarding of these prizes. Separate prizes were awarded for typography, display-line writing etc. This prize was awarded for 'pictorial illustration as the chief means of conveying its message. I am ready to offer the original sketch for the advertisement in question to show that no changes were made by any of Marcus's advertising men. The conception and the execution of this picture were entirely my own. Did Mr. Bok give the awards for business houses or for individual artists...
Such an author is Mr. Hill, who endeavors, we are told, to explore the mind and emotions of the adolescent boy in his response to sex, religion and beauty. It would have been simpler, and, perhaps, more exact to have omitted religion and beauty. For the author of "Plundered Host" as for the great majority of the writers of similar works, religion, beauty and all the other objects of emotion, are synonymous with sex; their religion has its origin below the belt, and their beauty is almost invariably lighted by a red lamp...