Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsibility of education to scan the far horizon; it is the obligation of education, if need be, to undergo attack, to accept contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so. It is the function of education, when error is found, to denounce it; it is the privilege of education, when truth is found, to proclaim...
...Paris seven paupers froze to death in the streets. Some, it was told, had refused to accept warmth and shelter for winch they could not pay. Misjudging their powers of resistance to the unfamiliar cold,* they had stumbled on through the snow -too long...
...interpreted, last week, by M. Jean Chiappe, the Prefect of Police of Paris. With firm wisdom M. le Préfet ordered his gendarnes to take into custody every vagrant. Soon, in warm Paris jails, the needy were served hot soups and stews which they could accept without loss of honor. When the weather moderated they were released...
Coal Ultimatum. Hearing how many a potent coal mine operator had declined to accept Secretary of Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution...
...offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church." The pastor then told why he clung to the little white church where he had preached for the past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that the majority of the people are with me, and I have been given a unanimous vote of confidence by the clergy of Long Island. I could have gone away with several thousand dollars and probably would have been...