Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years past the American educator could say of the classics, as President Coolidge did of the League, that they were a "dead issue". But significantly enough Latin and Greek have refused to accept this dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...
...took an active interest in Republican politics, first in New York, then in the national arena. Soon after taking office, President Harding offered him the Assistant Secretariat of Labor, but he declined. In June of 1921, he did accept an appointment to the Shipping Board. Now he sits at its head...
LLOYD GEORGE, in a statement published by The Daily Chronicle, London Liberal journal allegedly part-owned by him: "I did not give the interview referred to. . . . I cannot accept the views attributed to me. . . . I was called away from Paris to London . . . to take part in important discussions. . . . I found on my return to Paris that an agreement had been arrived at between President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau on two very important issues. One was the military occupation of the Rhineland. . . . To describe this agreement as a 'secret compact' between the late President Wilson and M. Clemenceau is ridiculous. President...
...therefore request Your Excellency to receive him favorably and to accept from him the assurance of the high regard and friendship entertained for Your Excellency and the Government and People of Liberia by the Government and People of the United States, and the sincere felicitations which they, and I, in their name, tender to Your Excellency on this auspicious occasion...
...Clark's statement concludes as follows: "The Scofflaw, most emphatically, does not 'Play the Game'. The Umpire, the American Nation, has ruled that Prohibition is 'safe', and that the drinker is 'out'. But the Scofflaw refuses to accept the Umpire's ruling. To hell with America!' he snarls, "I've got to have my drink...