Word: exaction
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...care thinking of the homeland. Those who are forced to endure it weather the storm amiably enough, probably never realizing their utter contemptibility. Likewise is the case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating...
Phillips Brooks House officials were emphatic in declaring that the lecture has been merely postponed, not cancelled. It is expected that the Chicago lawyer will address Harvard men sometime next March or April; the exact date, however, is not yet known...
...process of sending pictures by way of electric wires, and the Bell System had just recently installed the needed apparatus in San Francisco and other major cities. If Doremus & Co.'s revised advertisements were set up and a clean proof photographed, the Bell Co. would deliver exact reproductions where wanted. This was done, and the advertisement appeared according to original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office. C. W. Barron is the head of his profession-financial journalism- the biggest...
...Professor Wood's summer laboratory at Easthampton, L. I., there were, for long periods, heaps and masses of strange fruits, herbs, berries. Distilling out their essential oils, combining and recombining, adding and subtracting now orange, now pungent juniper, Professor Wood satisfied himself at last that he had the exact formula of essential oils that were added to glycerine, alcohol and distilled water to produce the finest commercial gin. Professor Wood then told his secret to manufacturing chemists and had prepared many tiny vials which he called "Eastwood Essence" and gave to friends at Christmas time. His friends urged...
...scientists there are testing the strength of the atom injecting foreign particles into the atom and bending the atom out of shape. Since this invisible unit of matter is the basic substance of which everything is composed, the physicists are really engaged in a study of fundamentals. When the exact nature of the atom is finally ascertained, the results will be of the utmost importance in every field of science...