Word: exaction
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...Committee is to raise a fund of at least $4,000, but they are far short of this goal at present. The exact figures will not be announced until the end of the clean-up campaign...
...time of the race--5 minutes and $2 seconds--was exceptionally good, but the length of the race was slightly under one mile, and therefore the time is not exact...
...order that these records may be as exact and complete as possible, provision has been made for the appointment of seven Inspectors of Consuls who are designated and commissioned as Consuls General at Large and who are expected to inspect each consular office once in every two years. The inspectors examine the condition and administration of each office, report the facts to the Department and give the officer counsel and advice. Promotions in the Service are, consequently, now entirely on a merit basis...
...happy solution of the labor problem depends upon the free play of the law of supply and demand. Manufacturers will always charge for their product as much as the public need will stand; laborers will likewise strive to exact from their employers the maximum compensation for their services. Ultimately it is the consumer who pays. If we would preserve American prosperity, we must maintain the only satisfactory compromise between wage slavery and the autocracy of labor,--the open shop. The suppression of individual bargaining would be of inestimable value to the unions; armed with a monopoly of production they would...
...Yale is handicapped beyond ordinary conditions by the loss of its best men and strengthened correspondingly by the arrival of new stars, the exact opposite holds true at Princeton. The Tigers lose only five men who could in any way be regarded as regulars or first string substitutes by graduation this year. "Mike" Callahan, captain of the 1920 team, and "Joe" Scheerer, the famous punter, are the two greatest losses Princeton will feel. Stiuson and Davis on the ends and Halsey at tackle are the only other men of importance to go. But Thomas is capable of filling Calshan...