Word: exaction
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...above. They were published by John Barrett, Chairman of the Coolidge Independent Group. They purport to be the answers, of a group of 2,400 "key voters" in the central West, to a questionnaire. It is an open question as to how representative these voters are, and their exact distribution was not given. The same questions were sent out in June and after Mr. Coolidge's acceptance speech in August. The questions and answers...
There is considerable dispute as to the exact conditions which pertain on Mars' surface, so that there is ample room for difference of opinion as to the possibility of life. Conditions are certainly different from those on the Earth, but it is just as impossible to say that there is no life as to say that there is. The evidence is circumstantial to a refined degree. But if there is life on Mars, it is in different form from that existing on the Earth. Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi...
Instead of being a military gesture, this plan is the exact opposite. It is a non-militaristic gesture for the purpose of keeping down to its lowest possible point the professional military organization of the United States...
...knows the exact date, the exact hour, the exact place where the three Scotch witches first ensnared their victim: "Treasury thou art, Railroads shalt be; More hereafter...
...Kamenev, it was decided to make students pass an examination on public development. One question was 'Who is the head of the Third International ?'† One unfortunate student answered 'Rosa Luxembourg' and was expelled. A woman medical student who was unable to give the exact definition of the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Republics was dismissed. A third was expelled for not knowing about the members of Lenin's family...