Word: exaction
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...length (about one in the morning) they quieted down, and, I firmly believe, went to sleep. They were the most human-sounding beasts I have ever met! All the grunts, sighs, groans, wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
...that Tammany Hall had "laid down" on the man that tried to outgrow it. But no such talk came from the man. He knew that people think differently about their Governor and their President; that New York City's new registration was huge; that politics is not an exact science...
...research staff. In the machine is a glass prism which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
...Hall, Harvard Hall, the Baker Library, Langdell Hall, and Austin Hall. The University authorities have sanctioned the use of these places for the poll and these arrangements will make it possible for all men in the College, the Business School and the Law School to vote without inconvenience. The exact times at which students may vote at these places will be announced soon...
...peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British government has assented to the French thesis that trained soldiers in reserve are not soldiers but "reservists" --not to be counted as soldiers in counting the French army--and agreed...