Word: exaction
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...model of the great ship hung suspended by wires over the heads of the inquiry officers, while the survivors filed in, were sworn, told their stories and were examined. The stories were fragmentary and mostly technical, no exact cause of or blame for the disaster being readily deducible from them. It might have been concluded that the ship was wrecked entirely because of the ferocity of the storm, that some of her girders were weak, that some of her safety valves were not working and that one or more of her gas cells burst, or that the temporary failure...
...conclusions as to the exact reasons for the destruction of the dirigible were obliged to wait on the final findings of the court...
While these issues and the exact future role of the League remains obscure, three notable accomplishments lie tucked away in the chronicles of the present assembly...
...attend his course are already possessed of this delight. After all, this is certainly a small prerequisite to demand of one specializing in literature in college. Furthermore Comparative Literature 6 is "for undergraduates and graduates." Why should the graduate students be neglected? I fancy that Dr. Magoun did not exact much of the mechanics of literature from them. Such things are usually in a course for the benefit of graduate students only. It seems to me that the foundation of your editor's reasoning is unsound. Courses in literature are not solely for entertainment. If a student feels that they...
...other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand in the man's pocket. . A woman came running up, and as the hold-up men disappeared she took the victim away. I haven't got the exact dates and places, but I will have and I will claim that $100 and give it to the Illinois Fundamentalist Association...