Word: exaction
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There remained civil suit to recover from Mr. Small and the Curtis estate, an amount placed by the state at $1,025,000. Because Governor Small disputed many items in the state bill, a Master in Chancery was appointed to report on the exact sum owed. Last week the approaching Chancery decision brought the six-year-old case once more into black, streaming headlines...
...fine but it has little to do with his scholastic success in college. He must eventually learn, however, that reading with or without an incentive is seldom quite barren of results. Even in August an afternoon spent looking at a book must leave some impression on the mind, the exact permancy being determined by the book which gives and the mind which receives the impression. Therefore the slogan "For Recreation Read The Best" is, in spite of its being a slogan, sound advice...
...exact lineup of the University nine is uncertain. It is expected that G. E. Donaghy '29 will cover shortstop and that W. P. Elison '27 will roam right field, since this combination offers the strongest hitting attack. In late games especially against southpaws. Donaghy has gone to right and R. C. Sullivan '27 has played short, and a last minute shift by Coach F. G. Mitchell may send this combination into the field
...balance is made of from gifts from all over the country, 375 contributors giving $42,987.92. The total number of contributors to date is 1,372 and the exact amount received...
...either side of the French stadium, the white wall of the amphitheatre is low enough to let the beholder see over it into the still-smoking battlefields, seen as from a high hill in geographically exact detail. Within the wall, which is divided into panels by inscribed monuments, stand leading representatives of the Allied Nations, grouped on shallow steps, with each nation's name engraved on a smooth tablet...