Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling him," said Senator Fess, "that I was more convinced than ever that the people of the country would demand his re-election so strongly that the party could not think of nominating anyone else and he could not refuse to accept the inevitable, regardless of his personal choice to retire to private life...
...opinion," said Senator Fess after what the press called his "scolding," "that the mere fact that the President does not say something more in face of the general public clamor, is proof enough that he intends to accept the nomination when it is offered to him. . . . It is the Coolidge way of doing things; it is the Coolidge psychology...
...have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused to enter King Edward when he was Prince of Wales because Queen Victoria made stipulations that the head of that institution would not accept; and so the young Prince had to go to the "House" (Christ Church). And many a noble lord with erroneous ideas about his own importance has been reduced to equality by a summary ducking in a fountain or a "de-bagging" (trousers taken off in public) humiliation...
...course, explicitly recommend any way of dealing with this problem, but the various speakers tended to indorse the Japanese contention that the other Pacific peoples ought to modify their own policies in order to take care of the Japanese increase in population. If they were unwilling to accept Japanese immigrants, it was their duty to provide Japan with raw materials and to buy from her more and more manufactured products, and so help her to support her increasing population...
...experience with college theatricals in his former position of coach of the Yale Dramatic Association. He stated when reached last night by the CRIMSON that he had been officially approached by officers of the club, but that he was far too busy at the Repertory Theatre to accept the Dramatic Club position, for the present at any rate...