Word: exaction
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...King is a most interesting study from the sartorial point of view. An exact balance is held by His Majesty between fashion and style, style and personal lik-ing." Thus pontificated, last week, the current London issue of Tailor and Cutter...
...exact date for the play has not yet been selected, but it will probably be during the latter part of March or the first of April. All interested in any from of work connected with the production of a play are invited to attend tomorrow's meeting, for there will be opportunities to work in the stagecraft and business as well as the acting departments of the play...
...eliminate one racing difficulty; breathlessness and subsequent fatigue. Then, if one could arrange a little flag so that it would run around the track at a steady speed just a little higher than the average speed of the previous record holder, and instruct the runner to follow the flag exactly, one would eliminate another difficulty, that of pacing at the exact speed best for a certain race...
Robert Browning's "Pauline" of which there are reputed to be but 11 copies in the world, brought $16,000. The exact duplicate of this volume is included in the Memorial Room exhibit. A Kilmamork edition of Burns which sold for $6,750 in New York because of the few lines of Burn's hand-writing contained in it, may be found in duplicate form in the Widener collection, the Widener volume containing several pages of the renowned poet's handwriting...
...advanced as to details, except that there will be a tunnel through which the track straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time as a radical change in the Harvard football seating...