Word: exaction
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Slides were then thrown on the screen showing the exact location and the topography in the neighborhood of the peak. Taking his subject well in hand Mr. Mallory described in detail the expedition's first attempt to scale the mountain last May. After establishing five camps the party fell short of reaching their destination by 2,000 feet. They would have gone further but the third member of the party became ill and in order not to leave him to die, it was decided to turn back...
...covers a far wider field at much less expense. "The function of the agency", he continued, "is to discover by research and study where the advertising of its customers will be most effective, and to place it there. It may take months or a year to determine the exact situation, but the most effective type of copy and the best place to use it must be accurately determined...
What is it that makes Shakespeare great? Why is the original of the Canterbury Tales finer poetry than Dryden's translation? What differentiates genius from mediocrity? These are subtleties that cannot be expressed in so many words, in any course. Literature is not yet an exact science. But all that can be taught is being taught now in such courses as English 41 and 28, which deal not only with facts (as the writer seems to think) but with the theories of style, taste and method. What they teach is an intelligent critical attitude, which, applied to the actual reading...
...writing of history is not an exact science, as anyone with the slightest acquaintance with the study of history is well aware, and some of the worst offenders in this respect have been in the past the historians of the school that Professor Hart's assailants seem to prefer. Their passionate concern for the greatness and character of Samuel Adams is gratifying proof that they love that America which undoubtedly he very much helped to create. But Messrs. O'Connor, McSweeny, Prout, Walsh and Watson as students of history should bear in mind that Samuel Adams was very English indeed...
...Benjamin Barnes Jr. of Boston; music, Morgan Hovey Harris of Chestnut Hill; patronesses, John Jackson Lee of West-wood; invitations. Clay Harvey Hollister Jr. of Grand Rapids, Michigan; furniture John Delafield Du Bois of New York City; assistant for furniture, Richard Greenough Norris of Brookline. Although the dance, the exact date of which will not be announced until later, does not come until February or March, this committee will meet and start work very shortly...