Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field. Field Marshal Simmons offered to give battle first in the administrative provisions section along the barren ground of Flexible Tariff Ridge where could be no loot to deter greedy Democrats from fighting wholeheartedly with the enemy. It was a clever opening, but Generalissimo Smoot did not hesitate to accept battle there...
Only because the average U. S. citizen is unfamiliar with it is lignite not more widely used in the U. S. During the War the government asked Dakota citizens to burn lignite in their furnaces as an economy measure. Now coal dealers can scarcely make Dakotans accept anything else...
...help to bewildered Freshmen in choosing their schedules is a fact so generally recognized that the CRIMSON feels thoroughly justified in practing it despite its shortcomings and injustices. The history of the guide leaves but little doubt that in the field of instruction the student is more inclined to accept the judgement of his confreres than of his elders...
Arbitration Advance. The most concrete passage in Scot MacDonald's idealistic speech dealt with the so-called "Optional Clause" of the World Court protocol, signatories to which bind themselves to accept the arbitral jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes. Said Mr. MacDonald: "I am in a position to announce that my Government has decided to sign the optional clause. [Prolonged cheers from statesmen of the minor nations, most of which have signed.] The form of our declaration is now being prepared." Later Prime Minister Aristide Briand said that France, which has adhered with reservations to the Optional Clause...
...though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...