Word: exaction
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...This has led me to direct my personal attention to this subject, in order to ascertain the exact nature of these articles. As a result of this survey I confess that I am deeply mortified that this journal, which is intended to be constructive and not destructive has been made the medium for resurrection of exploded fictions, for giving currency to the so-called protocols of the 'Wise Men of Zion,' which have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries, and for contending that the Jews have been engaged in a conspiracy to control the capital...
...Some of his tables are incomplete, his methods of handling his statistics are incorrect, and ... in almost every case in which exact information is available Mr. Churchill's figures are proved to be erroneous...
...Most Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week...
Twenty-five years ago-on July 19, 1902, to be exact-nine men representing New York City and being called the "Giants" were playing baseball against Philadelphia. Most of them had sonorous Irish names-Brodie, Bresnahan, McGinnity, McGann, McGraw. They lost the game, 5 to 3. But the crowd of some 10,000 was not entirely displeased. The new manager and shortstop* of the Giants, John Joseph McGraw, seemed to be a fighter and a leader who knew the difference between first base and home plate. New Yorkers predicted that he would get the Giants out of the "cellar" (last...
Although the exact details of the plans for the Glee Club for next year have not yet been decided the general outline of the activities was announced by the Glee Club office last night...