Word: exaction
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Last week in a hotel ballroom, Manhattan, the last two met around a green table to decide the championship of the world. So exact must be the equipment to match the skill of the contestants that the table was electrically heated to prohibit a stone cold surface* deadening the balls...
Died. Benjamin Purnell, 66, "King of the House of David," "Seventh Messenger announcing the Millennium"; at Benton Harbor, Mich., of pulmonary tuberculosis. He taught, as many before him had taught and still conscientiously teach, that the Bible foretells the exact date at which the Millennium will begin. As the "Seventh Messenger," he also taught, he would never die; nor would 143,999 others who believed in his Messianic pretentions. About his dead body last week his disciples sat, waiting for his resurrection-in vain...
...School Superintendent McAndrew's "trial" for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.). Although Superintendent McAndrew was absent from the hearing, 17 Chicago school teachers, principals and district superintendents, were present to call him a "Simon Legree . . . a faker . . . a cruel task master," because he had obliged them to exact perfect answers from their pupils before permitting the pupils to continue to subsequent lessons...
...children to the public school, doing their full duty to society as citizens, supporting the whole by a pay-check truly earned and regularly banked, may think of the couple as an exception. If he will multiply this couple by ten thousand, or more, he will have a more exact conception of the public status of the deaf and dumb...
...center of this room a door will open into a large hall of the West Wing. This hall is to be an exact replica of a judiciary court, and will have in the rear of the room, a small library for the benefit of visiting judges...