Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, I do not have access to all of the company with which the Senator from New Jersey seems to be familiar, because as I understood him, he said that it is almost impossible to go into company without some one inquiring as to 'who has the supply?' Well, I have not had that experience, I regret to say, or do say without regret [laughter]; and if the Senator has had that experience and has been in such company he has had an experience which has not come...
General Laidoner began by recalling that the Turks had refused his commission access to the region on the Turkish side of the Mosul frontier. He then went on to say that the commissioners had cross- examined refugees from this region before there was any possibility of their having been tampered with by British agents. In conclusion he expressed absolute certainty as to the material fact that the Turks have been deporting the non-Moslem inhabitants of this region with frightful barbarity...
...unlimited institutions, particularly the great western universities, have adapted themselves, by including professional courses in undergraduate curricula, to the student who cares nothing for his general development. Thus a student who has entered college only because everyone else is doing it, without much purpose of broadening himself culturally, has access to undergraduate courses in law business, agriculture, medicine; and he can spend his four years profitably in preparation for his coming profession. Anything he may learn incidentally of less utilitarian things is, of course, an admirable addition...
...immigration laws forbidding access to the country to persons advocating or practising polygamy, advocating the overthrow of constituted government, etc. The immigration officers of the Department of Labor have authority in enforcing these laws. A portion of the authority is also vested in the State Department through the power of its agents abroad in granting or denying visas for the passports of alien visitors...
...readers are ever fond of rushing into print and obscuring the points at issue. Would Mr. Young [TIME, Oct. 5, LETTERS], tell me in what dictionary he found "bathysophical" ? I have searched in vain in Webster's, Stormonth, The Century, Concise Oxford, Pocket Oxford, and if I had access to the great Oxford I am not so sure that I should have found...