Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other "culls" wish to subscribe with Cull Mittlefehldt to deport Henry J. Weeks? Would Henry J. Weeks accept a ticket?-ED. Ex-Buck Sirs: If the ex-Y-Tycoons; real, semi and pseudo, say they gave away 26 million francs and won the war, that's that. All you ex-bucks who believe it, stand on your head. I neither recollect nor have I ever heard of any buck who ever received, gratis, anything from the Y except - -. He got lots of that. In fact he has heard this brand of F. S. Edmonds and F. H. Jamison overseas...
...conclusion of his speech, he remarked on how glad he had been to accept the invitation to speak at the University, and expressed his hope that many men would come to hear him in Boston. He was given an ovation by the enthusiastic audience...
From the very nature of the case a great many of the new minorities belong to Germany racially, and here again one has to deal with highly cultured elements which are unwilling to accept oppression without remonstrance. Leaving aside the German element in Alsace-Lorraine, which is largely French in sentiment, the most important German minorities are those in southern Tyrol, under Italian domination, in Czecho-slovakia, in Polish Silesia, and in the region, of the Polish corridor. In the treaties by which the new states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests...
...achieve universal peace and happiness." Tai Hsu believes Buddhism can achieve these things. In U.S. colleges and universities, therefore, he will explain his doctrines. But unlike most Christian missionaries, he will seek to convert no unbelievers. He intends merely to offer his beliefs for intelligent examination, letting those accept who wish...
Next came an article by Paul M. Hollister, a vice president at Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Mr. Hollister asked a hypothetical question. What, said he, would happen if publishers, who have already freed their pages from patent medicine advertising, should now refuse to accept any testimonial advertisement that was not certified as unpaid for and voluntary? Mr. Hollister predicted that such a procedure would cause anguish among many agency men charged with formulating campaign ideas, would also grieve Park Avenue females who would be deprived of "their most profitable racket...