Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foundation cabled to Lord Cecil, informed him of the award, received the answer: "Deeply gratified by award . . . which gladly accept." It was then given out that he would arrive in Manhattan in time for a dinner on Dec. 28, birthday of Woodrow Wilson, at which the award is to be presented to him. Lady Cecil, a daughter of the late Earl of Durham, is to accompany...
Among the celebrities, present will be James Montgomery Flagg and Gluyas Williams '11, Heywood Broun '10 and Robert C. Benchley '12 were also on the invited list but were unable to accept...
Much feeling was manifested at a recent meeting of Art Students (young and old) while discussing Harvard's mysterious dip into subterranean, dark cavities in its effort to clandestinely, yet conveniently, reach Rome and accept a (gefill't a fish) gilt-edge catechism direct from the skeleton hand of that animated stalking, rattling boss of the profitable Catacombs...
Submission. All week long the British authorities in Cairo conferred with Premier Ziwar over the British demands as contained in the ultimatum delivered by Lord Allenby. In the end the Egyptian Premier agreed to accept all the British demands. Whereupon the British evacuated the Alexandria Customs House which they had seized when Premier Zaghlul refused to accept in toto the British ultimatum. Lord Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, reported the situation "in good order," conditions "easier and satisfactory...
...messages of Comrade Tchitcherin, two in number, deplored the British Government's action in abrogating the Russian Treaties, negotiated painfully by Premier MacDonald; it tacitly declined, however, to accept any responsibility for the "discontent" that the rejection will cause in Russia and Britain, stating that the Bolshevik Government "has displayed a maximum of good-will and concessions" in connection with the treaties...