Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35¢ a pound?" Computers added also that U. S. Comptroller General McCarl had previously ruled that the Government should accept the lowest bid. To which Postmaster General New answered that the National Air Transport Co. was the "lowest and best responsible bidder" and the only one to whom he could have made the award...
...Very few German girls stay at home now. The younger men accept this as a necessary condition partly due to the War; but of course some of the older men object to seeing women in offices and public positions. . . . My own interests are divided between industrial problems and the Hamburg Burgerschaft (House of Burgesses). Most of its other women members are teachers. . . . Oh, we are not so different from Americans. There are few Germans like my husband and myself, but we are happy...
...anchorite of Wall Street, President Baker yet inherently dislikes publicity. That reticence, among other factors, prevented Mayor James Walker of New York City appointing Mr. Baker police commissioner last year, although Mr. Baker's friends assured Mayor Walker that the banker would accept the appointment as an obligation. They pointed to the facts that he is, quietly, the President of St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, a trustee of Columbia University, and an earnest, active Episcopalian...
Commenting on Russia, Senator Borah said, "In the light of what has happened and is happening, it is my opinion that the United States should recognize the Russian Soviet. All of the great countries of the world except the United States have accepted the Soviet, all have recognized it to be legal and effective and I see no reason why we, a nation far distant from Russia, have any reason not to accept it. On the other hand I think there are several reasons why we should recognize the Russian Soviet. In the first place, Russia is a great potential...
...neither of these two cases has the evidence of guilt beeen absolutely incontestable; in neither case have the tactics of the government prosecution been without their critics. In both cases the defense has refused to accept the verdict, and legal battles extending over many years have been waged. In both cases, also, the verdicts have attracted world-wide interest, and the cause of the defendants has been espoused by many of the most eminent legal minds...