Word: exaction
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...blood of this man was the Frenchman, the Indian and the Yankee-to be exact: 7/16 French, 1/16 Indian, 8/16 Yankee. Many years ago, when the 19th Century was an infant, a comely daughter came to White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe of Kansas. She was the great-grandmother of Senator Charles Curtis; she married a swashbuckling young Frenchman named Conville, who had hammered down his stakes near St. Louis. Their daughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader-from which wedlock sprang the mother of the Senator. Captain A.O. Curtis, his father, had come to Kansas from New Hampshire...
...classes will be represented, provided enough wrestlers sign up These are the 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175, pound and heavyweight classes. The usual three pounds overweight is allowed in each east. Final matches will probably be run off from Monday, January 9, to Wednesday, January 11, although the exact dates have not yet been fixed...
...father's lapel, but Jacob told him to take it home, press it. When the boy left the store, he discovered that he had lost the flower. How meet his father's ire? At dinner that night he had a carnation in his buttonhole. It was the exact duplicate, in minute detail, of Mrs. McKinley's carnation, which Father Jacob had found. "Michael," said Jacob, who had the original in his pocket, "you're a good matcher." Michael was all Of that. It was he who brought together the pearls of a Philadelphia financier...
Although the expedition was intended primarily as a pleasure excursion, the climbers did some valuable scientific work in mapping the topography and making exact records of the mountain's height...
...offense to evolve some other method of keeping the defense in doubt as to the real intent of the attack, and the huddle was a very natural answer to this problem. From the huddle a team can come out into any one of a multitude of formations the exact nature of which is concealed from the defense until almost the instant when the ball is put in play. This result could not be achieved if the team made all its moves from a standard formation, because the defense could move with, and as fast as the offense...