Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to almost wipe out a world wide anti German feeling which had been fanned to a white heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest of the world...
...when she has accepted her host's guest pajamas and is determined to accept his love, the girl falls to weeping. Thereupon the sympathetic tenor tucks her in bed with a large teddy bear, goes elsewhere for the night. In the morning his honorable proposal is accepted...
...have never challenged either British or American naval power and we are willing to accept with good grace that there should be two naval powers which share hegemony ... on a basis of parity. But what interests us is that we should not have to pay the costs of the combination. That is to say that we should not have to pay for it with the loss of our independence...
...better to die than to accept a living death behind the bars," said he to inquiring reporters. "In death I prove myself to be an innocent...
...that is enforced at Oxford and Cambridge, the rule that compels every undergraduate to be within his college precincts by midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...