Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These wild and fantastic rumors were sent out by a reputable news gathering association, acting, of course, in perfect good faith, but ignoring the fact that it is never safe to accept, as true, stories from one Balkan country about the internal affairs of another, and that all Balkan news coming out of Vienna should be regarded with great suspicion. The same agency that sent out the Vienna-Belgrade stories had its own correspondent in Greece who could have readily verified or disproved them, and who would have undoubtedly sent them in himself if they had been founded on fact...
Bulletins continued to conflict as to just when the Beaver Man would start westward to bow from train platforms, see the President, have his triumph at Palo Alto, accept the nomination...
...firm, courteous, precise way John Henry Whitley informed both King and Country, last week, that he will not accept a peerage. "My reasons," he said, "are personal...
...TIME woods are not already filled with good indexers or would-be indexers, I offer to contract to do the job. But whether you accept or reject my idea I shan't cancel the boss's subscription, or discontinue reading TIME...
Josef Casimir Hofmann, famed pianist, director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, left for England on the Mauretania to accept unusual jury service. To be judged: a carillon of 6r bells (the lightest, 7 Ibs.; the heaviest, 11 tons), destined for the Florida bird sanctuary of Publicist Edward William...