Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Lou Henry came into the Hoover picture at about this time-Mr. Janin to hire Herbert Hoover as a stenographer and to let him, almost overnight, acquire an outstanding international reputation as an engineer; Miss Henry to gaze awestruck at Professor Branner's greatest pupil and to accept him a few years later, when he cabled an important question to her from the Australian goldfields, scene of his first...
...what he had done in 1904; pick up the pieces and begin again. After 1904 he had shifted his objective and aimed his efforts at another office. In 1920 he stood pat. Harding offered him a chance to continue in active politics, inviting him to accept the post of Secretary of the Navy. Lowden refused. He knew nothing about the work that had been offered him and was frank enough...
...Passed the House Bill authorizing Col. Lindbergh to accept foreign decorations...
Last week the "Treaty of Alliance" raised the question whether the Wafd, with a clear majority in the Chamber, could be forced to accept what Britain is willing to give...
...opinion it will occur when men disencumber the true religions of Christianity from all the accretions which deter them, and when all, uniting in the understanding of life which lies at the base of all, realize their reasonable relation to the world's eternal origin and accept the guidance for life which flows therefrom...