Word: exaction
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Twelve men will remain from these trials. On Monday, February 18, they will be sifted, leaving the final squad of nine. In the final trials the candidates will speak on the regular triangular debate question, which Princeton is now engaged in selecting. The University will give the exact wording to the subject chosen, and the statement of the question will be announced on February...
...scarcely the time to impugn France's good intentions in an extreme manner." Le Temps said: "It seems to us that France ought to take the initiative in new negotiations on the War debts. She could begin, as did England, by approaching the United States. First the exact total of the American claim on France should be fixed, which would be a matter of bookkeeping. Then could be discussed bases of settlement. Effective payments would evidently depend in some measure on the resources France could get progressively from the collection of her claim on Germany. "To be sure...
...audience is then escorted through the lines and presented to the English leaders. Coming as it does in the exact middle of the play, the interminable conversation put into their mouths seems the grossest of dramatic errors. If the talk were bright and new there might be justification; for the most part it is repetition of the author's well-known tenets on England and on Christianity...
...University of Pennsylvania, told of an improved technique for studying the chromosomes of chicks. All of the hereditary characteristics of animals are transmitted to their offspring through tiny bodies called chromosomes in the two microscopic germ-cells contributed, one by each parent. Research on chromosomes has become very exact; they can be counted, and their various divisions, pairings and combinations recorded...
...infallibility very liberally, and relied chiefly on fulfilled prophecies and the vitality of the Bible under adverse circumstances to prove his case. Dr. Potter, on the other hand, went after specific phrases and historical facts, and showed fairly convincingly that word for word, the Bible is not always as exact and reliable as the word of God might reasonably be expected to be. More than that, he pointed out contradictions of the generally expressed spirit of the Bible in those blood curdling admonitions which have always worried the more logical harried...