Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intricacies of Harvard Square. Some of these ten hundred will find the first weekend lonely and speak to themselves of the Harvard "indifference," as well renowned as the name of Columbus. Some will find the Back Bay accent strange. Before, however, you commit yourself or form a prejudice, accept as hearty welcome the advice of those who were once in your position...
...event of a dispute between a Member of the League (i. e. China) and a State which is not a member of the League (i. e., Japan), or between States not members of the League, the State or States not members of the League shall be invited to accept the obligations of membership in the League...
...such fools were Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo as to imagine Japan can be caused to accept a League "invitation" to rejoin the League for the express purpose of being chastised, but should Japan refuse. Article Seventeen is so drawn that Article Sixteen automatically is invoked and under this League States are supposed to punish the offender who goes to war by applying "Sanctions...
...eyed Biologist Julian Sorell Huxley predicted at Nottingham that the old dream of eugenists-human breeding by selected males and females only-would actually be put into practice within one or two generations. Said Dr. Huxley: "When people get used to the idea they will accept it just as they have accepted birth control...
...cardinal principle in criminal law is that either side of an action can challenge, without offering a reason, a certain number of jurors. All 48 U. S. States accept this principle. But some U. S. judges are as objectionable as some U. S. jurors, and hitherto the only way a lawyer could avoid trying his cause before a judge he disliked or distrusted was to prove prejudice on the part of the judge or to switch his case to some other court on jurisdictional grounds...