Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of another its obligations or the dangers to peace which may from time to time arise. . . . In the language of the joint statement issued by the President of the U. S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain on Oct. 10 last, 'both our governments resolve to accept the peace pact not only as a declaration of good intentions but as a positive obligation to direct national policy in accordance with its pledge...
Fifteen minutes later, still grinning grimly, he arose and went limping out of the chamber, a Senator-reject from Pennsylvania. In the interval the Senate had refused (58 to 22) to accept him as a member because he and his friends had spent $785,000 to win the Republican nomination in the May 1926 primary.* To some Mr. Vare had been lynched, the Constitution shaken. To others the Senate had righteously purged itself of an evil influence...
...debate. It has rendered just 17 judgments. In 1920 U. S. Minister to Switzerland Pleasant A. Stovall signed World Court articles of adherence for the U. S. Government, only to have, the U. S. Senate place so many reservations on U. S. participation that other member nations refused to accept the Stovall signature...
...research as he sees, fit. He intends specifically to continue work on his small mono-wheel amphibian and in general to make planes faster, lighter, easier to learn to fly in. He admitted that he might attempt the design of a Schneider Cup racer. He said he would accept research work for any firm engaged in air craft manufacture. With his strong governmental connections, he hoped for contracts from that quarter...
...have no doubt whatever that the writer of your leading article on History 2 in today's number of the CRIMSON was actuated solely by the desire to offer constructive criticism. The criticism I would accept with greater alacrity if it were better fortified with accurate factual and statistical data. Almost every statement made in the editorial appears to me to be erroneous or misleading. Marriott's Revolution of 1848 was in no sense a prescribed book, and every member of--the course was free to read something else on the same subject. Now that I know that all members...