Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Nominee Curtis: "... I accept the nomination. ... It is not in the nature of man to refuse . . . humbleness . . . neighbors and friends . . . loyal . . . prosperity . . . prosperity...
...bring, Mr. Chairman, formal notice of my nomination by the Republican Party to the Presidency of the United States. I accept...
...definitely accept your challenge, and will certainly meet you, God willing, face to face. . . . The place where this is done is quite immaterial, as it is vindication before the whole nation that you need and not the opportunity to establish an alibi merely before the Calvary congregation...
...speaker who could not be arrested preached flat disloyalty to George V and mere lip loyalty to the British Crown before a huge audience at Harrismith in the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion. "We don't accept the King of England," he roared, "but only his Crown...
...Speech from the Throne, which is actually neither more nor less than a declaration from the Cabinet, contained one trans-Atlantic allusion: "My Government has been happy to accept the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war proposed to them by the Government of the United States. The proposed treaty has similarly been accepted by my Governments in the Dominions and my Government in India. It is my confident expectation that when completed it will constitute a new and important guarantee of the world's peace...