Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ultimatum to Nicaraguans read-"The forces of the U. S. will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down . . . and to disarm, forcibly those who will...
...have just read the letter of C. R. Crane, R. F. D. Box 24, Wagoner, Okla. [TIME, May 16]. Will you ask him if he will accept a continuance of TIME from me? I like TIME and believe if I were hit by his apparent misfortune I'd be pleased to have it come to me even then, however hard...
Orders sped, and soon the highly organized committees of Capitalists and Laborers which represent these classes at the bar of the State (TIME, May 2) were told what they must do. Capital must cut prices; but would be allowed also to cut wages. Labor must accept lower wages; but would find the purchasing power of these wages increased by the cutting of prices. Theoretically this procedure was simple, sound. It was as simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some...
...reasons for which Harvard, Yale and Princeton have failed to join in any Eastern "Big Ten" which might be formed are obviously not those of "a sort of superficial snobbery" as the Daily states. To accept such a presumption is to ignore entirely the whole shift in undergraduate attitude toward football and to base futile arguments on a threadbare theme. The Eastern Conference idea is acceptable and conceivable only in the degree in which it supports the recent rationalization of the sport. Certainly the Present regime of the western body is not toward that...
...this theory is correct and the athletic authorities of both institutions are unable to arrange a meeting for 1928, we are willing to accept a one-year interval in the long series of annual games. But, if Harvard desires to discontinue football relations with Brown, which seems unlikely, we are quite as willing to accept the break as the Crimson. Harvard has just as much to lose from such a move as Brown...