Word: exaction
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Then the wizard recited a magic formula: Let the Government guarantee landlords the same income on their lands that they now get, then let it give a cultivating tenure to farmers, supply them with liberal credit, better buildings, and exact of them scientific agriculture...
...family fireside, and decree retaliation. They hire three healthy and ingenuous college youths to force their husbands' jealousy. To acquaint themselves with these young men they arrange a house party at Glen Cove (where orderly house parties are normally the rule). The young men, somewhat puzzled by the exact extent of their duties, decide to earn their money thoroughly. By the time the husbands arrive dresses are torn, shoes are off, and hair is all unpinned. The situation is complicated by the presence of three young ladies with whom the husbands hoped to spend the same week...
...true that the functions of their office exact neither physical nor mental effort from these gentlemen. Sweatshop workers, boilermakers, bookkeepers, often look upon them with envy. Guards have it easy. All they gotta do is just stand, and once in a while tell some loonhead where...
Another count against the Commission lies in its inability to reach unanimity of decision. On paper the duties of the Commission are simple enough. The matter is essentially mathematical, and mathematics is an exact science. Production costs at home and abroad having been ascertained by the Commission's experts; comparability becomes a matter of cold statistics, leaving small room for soap-box oratory or division of opinion. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience...
...reason of his resignation as Secretary of State was also promulgated (the common story is that he refused to sign the second Lusitania note to Germany). It was said that he had prepared a note to the Austrian Government (accounts of the new version differed as to the exact matter in question) which Mr. Wilson recalled and revised without consulting him, and that he thereupon resigned. Some doubt was cast upon this account...