Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After finishing college, Trumbull devoted three years to study for the ministry: but the loss of an uncle at sea just, when Jonathan was about to accept his first call, and the needs of his father's growing mercantile business, changed his choice of profession and he became a farmer-merchant...
...varsity squad will then play a series of not more than three intercollege games, say with Yale and two other universities, provided these universities will agree to adopt a similar plan. To avoid unfairness in such games, it will of course be necessary for the other institutions to accept the same plan of preparation as Harvard...
Haverford and Princeton are engaged in a nip and tuck race for the league leadership, while the University and Yale are both trying to force each other to accept the position at the bottom of the ladder...
...have the mighty fallen and the inerrant promulgated untruth! So will it ever be with those who accept uncritically the offerings of the newspaper press...
...have, of course, every desire to conform completely to diplomatic usage, and if you advise me that diplomatic usage in a case of this kind requires me to accept Count Porta's version of the occurrence, notwithstanding the statement to the contrary of the State police officer and three reliable witnesses, then I shall be very glad to consider again the question of returning to Count Porta the $30. These witnesses say he paid by way of compensation for the damage...