Word: exactions
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...toll was $1.75," said the stranger, laying the exact change on the counter. "Thank you," he added courteously and departed...
...Fascist Italy, which is not in the habit of being afraid of any one! . . . We are sufficiently insolent and explicit to substitute a new formula for an old one, since we are furthering the cause of truth and civilization and even of peace. Our new formula is this: 'We exact the payment of two eyes for the loss of only one eye, and of a whole set of teeth for the loss of only one tooth...
Before the War he could tell from memory the exact location of hundreds of ships plying all the oceans. In 1911 he was elected president of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Throughout his astounding progress and accomplishments in the steel field, which he to a considerable extent built up, he has retained his pleasant humanity...
...political and psychological. No one can approach an understanding of the situation in Germany unless he realizes at the very outset that politics--politics of an intransigent and bitter variety of which the average American has no conception--intrudes itself dominatingly into every department of life, including even the exact sciences, and divides people into warring groups which combine more or less roughly into nationalists and patriots on the one side and internationalists and enemies of patriotism on the other...
...pleasure, but who spoke no words. The attentive noted that these silent folk looked at each other with wide, quick-moving eyes which certainly observed everything, especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then the realization came that these deaf persons had come to Trinity Church to attend the ordination to the Episcopal priesthood of James Stanley Slight...