Word: exaction
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...State Department's action in muzzling the Count. Apparently it was that the Karolyis had been evicted from Italy by Premier Francesco Nitti for carrying on Bolshevik propaganda. The State Department neither corroborated the Countess nor contradicted her; it therefore was fairly assumed that her statement was exact. This made the U. S. Government's ground of complaint against the Count somewhat frivolous; for it is an open secret that the Karolyis were expelled from Italy because a maid in their employ was proved to be a Bolshevik and the Italian Government jumped to the same conclusion about...
...After the campaign, Jesse H. Jones called upon Van Patten Inc. for an exact accounting of the $50,000. He was answered, he says, that an accounting had been sent to Mr. Woolley and none other would be forthcoming. On Feb. 10, 1925, Mr. Jones through Chairman Shaver sued Van Patten Inc. for an accounting...
...principles requires continual development. . . . The great point to be kept in mind is that normally an advance in science will show that statements of various religious beliefs require some sort of modification. If the religion is a sound expression of truth, this modification will only exhibit more adequately the exact point which is of importance...
...tutorial system at Harvard has now its counterparts at Princeton and Swarthmore, yet not exact counterparts," Dean E. A. Whitney '17 declared yesterday. Dean Whitney has just returned from Princeton where he was shown the development of the Princeton system. In a speech which he made there he explained the Harvard plan to Princeton undergraduates...
...which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder at the mere thought of an intelligent foreigner shaking hard-won American institutions with the rude blasts of his opinions...