Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...February, offered to enter into an equal engagement with Britain, France and Belgium to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression. This meant two things: 1) That Germany was prepared voluntarily to do what the Allies had been unable to force her to do-renounce all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, accept the present frontier; 2) that Germany, as a disarmed nation, was more in need of security than France, a heavily armed nation. Unfortunately, the offer was complicated by a categoric assertion that the proposed treaty in no way bound Germany to accept the Eastern frontiers between Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...Canadian House of Commons, Premier Mackenzie King indicated that the Governor General, General Lord Byng, would not accept a second term of office. The Premier added that the Governor General had decided that he would be unable to consider extension of his term except in case of urgent public need...
French;-2) that a moratorium of ten years be granted in respect of principal and interest, provided that the back interest, amounting to 4,000,000,000 gold francs ($800,000,000) be immediately paid. But, as France would accept paper instead of gold francs, the amount is cut by three-quarters...
...unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control. . . . The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose, excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only...
...tennis team that had given the Yale netmen a strong fight. The almost unexpected 9-0 victory that resulted for the University gave rise to very high hopes for the Yale match on the following Saturday. Yale, however, with the characteristic determination of the Bull Dog refused to accept the odium of defeat and struggled on to a tied score at 4-4, with the outcome of the match between Whitbeck and Ingraham and Jones and Watson still in the air at a set apiece. A sudden squall of rain, when the players were about to start their final...