Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frankfurter is a member of the Harvard Law School faculty. Furthermore, it is felt that the new committee takes the case entirely out of the realms of precedent and politics, and that the country as a whole will accept its findings on a case that has been more or less of a public disturbance for the past seven years...
...have dwindled from a possible menace to a probable irritation, the Governor proceeded to settle it entirely by his compromise payment. The original $1,025,000 had dropped to some $802,000, many items of which were still disputed. So Attorney General Carlstrom, prosecuting the case, agreed to accept a payment of $650,000 and costs...
...Ismet's train reached the end of the new line last week, he descended to the platform, stern and imposing, to accept without moving a muscle of his face the homage of some thousands of rural townsmen. They, well-meaning, slaughtered many sheep, and one gangling camel in honor of the new railway and Ismet Pasha. To make the celebration more costly, bright shawls and valuable rugs were dipped in blood from the slaughtered animals, then burned...
...Smith had the support of Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Pittsburgh and of other uncompromising Presbyterian Fundamentalists. Dr. Speer declared that he would not accept election unless it came as a "call," by acclamation...
...letter received last Saturday by W. J. Bingham '16. Director of Athleties, E. B. Cozzens, Graduate Manager of Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, expressed the willingness of the football authorities of that institution to accept Harvard's offer of the adoption of a non-scouting agreement for the gridiron season of 1927. With acceptances already received from Yale and Vermont, three of the University's football opponents of next year all have entered into the pact...