Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some suspicion by the conservative puritans who deprecated anything new. The name of Harvard protected it from much criticism which might otherwise have attacked it. Since no criticism assailed the innovation no restrictions were placed on what the Glover-Daye press sought to print. The printers were free to accept, refuse, and print whatever their whims dictated...
...interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability to bring about party unity for the solution of these problems would then fix the responsibility and make a record upon which a successful campaign can be waged four years from...
...hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate to his income would be charged for the finest attention...
...Science. It is their seeing eye that discloses, as Carlyle said, 'the inner harmony of things; what Nature meant.' It is they who bring the power and the fruits of knowledge to the multitude who are content to go through life without thinking and without questioning, who accept fire and the hatching of an egg, the attraction of a feather by a bit of amber, and the stars in their courses as a fish accepts the ocean...
...leading wet journal in America" is a title which many a publication would be pleased to accept. Judge or the American Mercury, for example, would love it. Last week, F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, had this title on the tip of his tongue and, forthwith, he deposited it upon Liberty, prosperous nickel weekly...