Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were 3,000,000 spindles, 50,000 looms. Mill workers continued to peddle fish. . . . Then the seven unions went to the polls again. Amid the yells of a blatant minority, they voted to accept the compromise. In the two leading unions the vote was close: weavers, 476 to 386; loom-fixers...
...dissociated from its material embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history can scarcely be expected to accept so categorical a statement, for instance, as: "The clergy of the allied nations are eager to throw in the faces of the German clergy their union with injustice in 1914. They abuse their own good fortune in belonging to nation's whose cause happened to be just...
...Committee appointed by De Normandie, the Student Council representative in charge of the Budget, consists of W. McK. Dunn '30, H. H. Holbrook '30, Kendrick Kerns '30, James Roosevelt '30, and R. F. W. Smith '30. These men were posted in Memorial Hall during registration to receive subscriptions or accept pledge cards for the Budget...
...grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles−mixup with a London tart, throes of a first novel. Old Pybus basked in the confidences, gave harsh literary advice, produced just the girl for Lance. That Lance, of avowedly artistic temperament, should accept both the advice and the girl so promptly is somehow too storybook...
...today face their first encounter with the Harvard language examinations question the value and validity of these tests any more than they question the necessity of College Boards or the object of laying their photographs before the admissions committee. Language requirements, like college boards, are there and must be accepted as such by all who aspire to complete identity with the college community. But even though the majority may accept them without further inquiry and all must accept them somehow or other, there are bound to be a few restless spirits among those crossing the threshold of the New Lecture...