Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to accept the Noble Lady's opinions as final," said Miss Wilkinson, "for we all know that her own children had every care that money can give them...
...lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont Morgan took three minutes to receive and accept the invitation of the Great Powers to sit on the Second Dawes Plan Committee (TIME...
...also been learned by the CRIMSON through other sources of information that the University has endeavored to induce Professor Beard to accept a permanent professorship at Harvard, but that he has decided to continue independent study and writing...
Tastes change so rapidly that "hits" come and go within a week. College buyers are always ahead of the market, and prove fickle in the extreme. Eccentricity makes a forecast of musical sales impossible, as frequently the students fall to accept songs rated as certain favorites. Sometimes they give vogue to a record by their patronage...
...declared their opposition to such a step and, as a result, the Alumni may be limited to one seat for the Yale football game. It is to be hoped, however, that the Alumni, who through their representatives, the Overseers, have turned down the proposition of a larger stadium, will accept this enforced limitation without complaint...