Word: exaction
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...University Engineering Society will hold the first meeting of the year tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce Hall. Mr. Frank Wight will speak on "Engineering: An Exact Scinece An Indefinite Art". Mr. Wight is the editor of The Engineering News Record, one of the leading engineering periodicals. The meetings of the club are open to all students in the University interested in engineering...
...statistics so far have been concerned with the amount of reparations which Germany has already paid. These, after all, are small in comparison with the total bill--even counting in all the cows and swarms of bees at their maximum market value. The question to be determined is the exact amount which she is capable of paying, in the opinion of the best economic experts of the day. Statistics such as these would make possible the erasure of the question mark now on the account books, and, indeed, would help to settle the whole problem. If Germany is totally...
Commission of Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Council of Ambassadors (TiME, Sept. 17) to establish the exact responsibility for the Janina murders, continued its deliberations. An Albanian shepherd testified that he had been asked by the Albanian Governor of Argyrokastro " to assassinate a mission." His evidence created a profound sensation and the matter is under investigation...
...spar in particular, rejoiced and gave thanks that at last they were about to witness some genuine races, between hardy, seagoing fishing schooners. This, however, is apparently not to be the case. The American sponsors of the Columbia, this year's entry from Gloucester, have been requested to forward exact sail measurements to the Halifax trustees of the Trophy. The inhabitants of Gloucester seem to have a premonition that the Columbia's sails will not fit Halifax requirements, in which case, according to the sages of the fishing town, there will be no race...
Captain Michael J. Brennan, of the Cambridge Police Department, when interviewed yesterday declared that he had already discharged 36 cases with reprimands. He said that the intended to be similarly lenient with the remaining ten cases before him, but that he planned to exact the full fine of ten dollars for any future cases of parking law violations...