Word: exaction
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...Dodge, to Edward S. Harkness who says little, gives much; to others. Out of the hat came $350,000 and it was forth- with announced that a $500,000 edifice for the American Church would be built on the left bank of the Seine where that river-to be exact, at the Quai d'Orsay-cuts through Paris. The balance is assured because the project has the official approval of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Presbyterian Joseph W. Cochran Jr. is pastor...
...what was to come. Blood, they believed, would tell. But the last period only showed that Passaic nerves were shattered. Shoving, butting, tripping, thrusting, Passaic tried to cripple Hackensack, was many times penalized. Pashman (Passaic) rendered Fast (Hackensack) unconscious for several minutes. Hackensack scored four points on fouls?the exact margin by which, when Referee Wallum blew his whistle, they found they had won. Fast, Weatherby, Bollerman, Green-leese, O'Shea were hoisted high on Hackensack heads, shoulders.* Krakovitch, Russel, Rohrback, Adams, Pashman were seen to weep as they rushed to their dressing-room. Prof. Blood issued no statement...
Declaring that crew at Harvard was not a sport open only to the sons of rich men, or to the socially elect, Coach Stevens launched the 1925 rowing season yesterday afternoon in Smith Halls Common Room with a vigorous speech in which he defined the exact status he felt the sport should bear in relation to athletics in the University. Over 200 students, were assembled when he began speaking...
...Thinkwells were received by a pompous gentleman with long chestnut whiskers. He was Albert Smith, Prime Minister, son of the original Miss Smith who, aged 99, still ruled the island. Now the islanders, after 70 years of segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...
...faced the music, inclined his ear. "Accustomed to the sound of deadly missiles," said he, 'I began to make observations of their peculiarities. ... I found that I could, with a trained musical ear, mark the spot where shells reached their acme, and so could give the almost exact range of the enemy's guns...