Word: exaction
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When it was announced that Renaud had been selected, curiosity and anxiety changed to wonderment. In personality, experience, attitudes, Renaud was reputed an exact antithesis to Swope...
...Likewise, when the spots on the sun were fewest and weakest, the radio reception was best. For the measurement of radio reception we have made use of a superhetrodyne receiver with multiple stage amplification together with a self-recording galvanometer. A local oscillator with controlled output makes possible the exact calibration of the entire receiving circuit prior to each night's observations," Professor Stetson continued...
Politics is a fluid science and so is bookkeeping. Mixed together in unknown quantities the two will generate various reactions, sometimes quiet and invisible, sometimes violently explosive. The final solution usually defies exact analysis...
...balloting the voter must vote for the exact number of men to be elected to each office. A check is to be made opposite the name of one candidate for Permanent Secretary, two for the Permanent Class Committee, seven for the Class Day Committee, and five for the Album Committee. If a voter does not check the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that particular position will be discarded, in order to prevent errors in the counting of votes. All ballots in order to be considered must be signed by the voter...
...good and bad blood are very slight. So the University of Pennsylvania researchers were obliged to amplify with radio tubes the weak current that blood can carry and invent a precision voltometer that shows 400 gradations between zero and one volt. The turning of a few switches shows the exact blood condition...