Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame for the necessity of investigation was laid upon Germany: "If now, more than four years after the Treaty has been in effect, Germany must accept investigation by interallied commission, the responsibility for this situation is hers, for without the systematic obstruction, of which the Allies so often have complained, disarmament operations would have been finished long...
...shipping, manufacturing, engineering, buying, sell ing, accounting, legal and other departments of Western Electric he was appointed its New York Manager, in 1902 a Vice President. In 1908 he became President of the Company and in 1919, after 38 years' service with it, he resigned to accept the Presidency of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Of medium size, stocky, he has a bristly moustache and keen, kindly eyes which shine through his glasses. A year ago last January he sat at his desk on the 26th floor of his Manhattan offices and, talking quietly into a telephone, was distinctly...
Perplexed, he wired the French Legation at Peking for instructions. Having secured permission from the Peking Government to accept the gifts, the Legation telegraphed: "Take your choice...
...Voted that the President and Fellows gratefully accept the gift; that they execute in such form as the President may approve an agreement to construct and equip an administration building, a library building, and such other buildings described in the official statement, a copy of which has been handed by Bishop Lawrence to the giver, as in the judgment of the Corporation are required for the present needs of the School and its needs in the immediate future; and that all such buildings be identified as the George F. Baker Foundation. "Very truly yours, "(Signed) A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...change the outlook of one disposed to crime is many times more difficult after the first conviction than before. If Sir Henry could be moved to continue his interesting work, remembering to temper his mercy with common sense, and experimenting with less hardened offenders, he might eventually come to accept his father's opinions with only one or two grains of salt, instead of an entire sellerful...