Word: exaction
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...general way, the physical causes of such catastrophes are scientifically known, but the exact conditions under which they arise are not known or predictable. They occur only in two parts of the world-or, at least, are very extraordinary elsewhere. The Mississippi Valley and Southeastern Europe are their habitats...
These contests, modelled on the same lines as the recent CRIMSON competition, have been substituted for the popularity contests originally proposed. The News contest subject follows the exact wording of that set in the CRIMSON contest...
...Tennyson's exact words: That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies...
...Publication of the Naval estimates revealed an increase over the current year's expenditure of ?4,700,000, the exact figure being ?60,500,000. The increase is explained by uncontrollable causes, such as increases in wages and prices; ?1,320,000 for the cost of Air cooperation with the fleet; ?50,000 for experimental work; increase...
...Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem not to have been very clear and the exact point of the disturbance was not easily determined. No damage directly traceable to the earthquake was reported. A rattling of windows, a swinging of lamps, here and there a cracked wall, in some places a frightened group of citizens were the chief accomplishments of the shock...