Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassadors and Ministers accredited at Berlin received, last week, an aide memoire from the Foreign Office, reminding them that Germany's greatest statesman Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "can no longer accept evening invitations...
...mere matter of names. A new competitive set-up began to appear. In 1928, as everyone remembers, the centre-ring automobile battle was Ford v. General Motors. The issue: Could Ford's Model "A" check the growing threat of Chevrolet and General Motors, or would Ford have to accept second place? In 1929, it seemed last week, the issue is enormously complicated by the injection of Chrysler Motors. Can Chrysler challenge General Motors...
...beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...
Finally, however, Bolivia did accept the "good offices" of the Pan-American Conference for an investigation of the origin of the conflict...
...When he arrived and unobstrusively entered the conference hall by a side door, a short grey-haired man in a sack suit, the delegates rose and applauded. He smiled, said nothing, took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh in the presentation. The young man, 26, who flew to world admiration, waited for the elderly...