Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bacon, dean of the Junior and Senior classes last year, also resigned during the summer in order to accept a position as dean of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. L. C. Keyes '24 is taking Mr. Bacon's place, pending his permanent appointment...
...were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken in foreign languages in our American colleges. To think that of all the universities invited to debate with Porto Ricans in their own language, only one had the "gumption" to accept. That was New York University...
Secretary Mellon rounded off his long program of Liberty Loan refinancings like a golfer who, having made par or better at almost all previous holes, encounters trouble at the final hole and has to accept a large figure to complete an otherwise happy scorecard...
...Small exhibitors have in the past been obliged to accept "block" booking, a collection of tedious pictures with some good ones. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the system, found it pernicious, forbade it, denounced the burly distributors. But block booking continues...
...following are current and recurrent: 1) Each New Year's Eve, John Pierpont Morgan summons his partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...