Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Adams was sympathetic to the offer but without authority to accept it. He hoped that Congress and the President would approve the conversion of the Olympia from a rust-sploshed hulk to a well-polished national memorial...
...Lexington: "If you're going to get anywhere politically, you've got to learn not to accept payment for your vote...
Last week the umpire, level-headed Mr. Justice Rigby Swift, announced the decision: Instead of the 12½% wage reduction demanded by mill owners, spinners and weavers must accept...
Hard-headed Ramsay MacDonald insisted that both the workers' unions and the employers' associations bind themselves by signed agreement to accept the ruling of his Arbitral Board of Five. Two arbiters were chosen from each side. Umpire was a sterling Lancashire man, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Finally the Prime Minister declared that in case of proven need the Government would grant a "temporary accommodation" (presumably a Treasury subsidy) to keep wages at the old level while the industry is getting on its feet...
Many a magazine publisher would be quick to accept such a pleasant proposition. It would solve the question of obstinate news-dealers who put his magazines on back racks, of adverse distribution situations, of competitively owned news-agencies. Just such a proposition became an actuality last week, but only for one publisher, a new publisher. This is how it came about...