Word: exaction
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This is the year of Louis Pasteur. Although the exact date of his birth was December 27, 1822, celebrations of the centenary have been going on in all parts of the civilized world for many months, and will continue throughout 1923, culminating in a great international exposition of hygiene at Strasbourg this summer. The medical and scientific press of every country is full of paeans of laudation. It is becoming increasingly clear that Pasteur's influence on science has been greater than that of any other man of the 19th or 20th centuries, with the sole exception of Charles...
...resolution because he was annoyed with Mr. Coolidge for having allowed Senator Lodge to interrupt a speech of his on the British debt bill. Spoke Alabama: " Lodge's point of order took me off the floor and Coolidge sustained the point of order, or, to be more exact, he participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." And Massachusetts departed without its meed of thanks...
...Herald said, editorially: " Mistakes will occur in the news columns, no matter how careful newspapers are. In this particular case a headline said that the Mayor had been ' Away Since Jan. 3.' As this was not exact, The New York Herald presents the facts more definitely. Here is the record of the Mayor's various absences from the city since last summer...
...best information of details, exact results and prospects can be obtained by writing to the Superintendent of the Reindeer Department, Bureau of Education for Alaska, Washington...
Although starting the match with erratic and sloppy playing, Channing Wakefield 2L, came from behind yesterday afternoon in the squash tournament finals and defeated W. P. Dixon '25 3-2 for the championship. The match was almost an exact repetition of the finals which the two men played in the interclub tournament held earlier in the season...