Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate vice-president of the Union. It is expected that this committee will effect some compromise satisfactory to both factions. John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers of America, may be the compromise speaker. But it is doubtful whether the Undergraduate Committee of the Union would accept him alone as the only liberal speaker to be invited to the Union this year...
There is, however, another field in which the demands of the publishers for uniform sizes is diametrically opposed to the best interest of the public, while somewhat favorable to the writers themselves. James Harvey Robinson has complained of the reluctance of publishers to accept works of a scientific or historical nature in the convenient-for the public size of from twenty to forty thousand words. Scientific writers, he notes, are equally reluctant to go to the trouble of condensing and reducing their material to this easily readable size. But a scientific book of seventy-five thousand words is rather...
...three months' struggle to retain the monarchy on the part of the Greek royalists, which became desperate when the first terms of abdication were offered (TIME, Dec. 31). The King, acting on the advice of Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the ubiquitous Queen Marie of Rumania, decided to accept terms which represent a compromise between the Republicans and the Conservatives and Liberals. The latter two will recognize the republic, subject to the following conditions...
...Italy it was reported that the Mussolini Government has invited Abdul Medjid to reside in Italy or in an Italian possession in Africa. Should Abdul Medjid be upheld as Calif and accept this offer, it would give the Italians much of the moral power of a second Vatican, consolidating her Mediterranean position between Europe's Catholics and Africa's Moslems, and being of immediate advantage in her relations with the turbulent Senussi sect in his Tripoli possessions...
Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist on the literal interpretation of any creed or of the Bible. Although he is personally inclined to accept the traditional idea of the Virgin Birth, he says its is not essential to Episcopal faith. Thus, before conservatives in the Episcopal Church can purge it of the so-called wheretics" they must settle with Bishop Lawrence...