Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock Wednesday afternoon the President and the Prime Minister bade their official farewells. That evening, unofficially, they disported together at a stag dinner given by Secretary of State Stimson. Contrary to precedent is it for U. S. presidents to accept informal social invitations, but President Hoover, to make a final friendly gesture, flouted the ceremonious rule...
Hoover -MacDonald Declaration: "Both our Governments resolve to accept the [Kellogg-Briand] Peace Pact not only as a declaration of good intentions, but as a positive obligation. . . . Therefore, in a new and reinforced sense the two governments not only declare that war between them is unthinkable, but that distrusts and suspicions arising from doubts and fears which may have been justified before the Peace Pact must now cease to influence national policy...
...matters as a truly national university. To that end, she in 1925 frankly undertook to attract more promising material from the South and West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys who rank in the top one-seventh of the graduating class of a regularly organized and affiliated high school. This new ruling and this open-handed welcome to the boys of the South and West...
...largest corporations in the U. S. The Senators were lucky because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends...
...accept the criticism, if it might be so termed, as a distinct compliment...