Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Personal access to the Sovereign...
American army officials are anxious to grant the favor, in view of the ready access given American army officers to the German records, war plans and orders of the German General Staff...
...Captain of the Hatteras died at sea; there was no bible aboard and the proper service had to be supplied by wireless. Thereupon the Bible Society placed bibles in the main cabins of all Shipping Board ships. Then it was learned that the stewards and sailors did not have access to these bibles. Hence the Society's new effort...
...issue of July 12, 1817, the Boston Daily Advertiser made the announcement in an editorial notice that "the government of Harvard University have lately established, under the patronage of the University, a School for the instruction of students at law. . . . The students . . . will have access to a complete law library to be obtained for their use". "A complete law library" must have been a far simpler matter a century ago than in these times, but the Corporation evidently sensed the difficulty which has attended the establishment of the library, when its vote establishing the school ran: "The students shall have...
Unforunately the wife, touched by the fact that her would-be seducer had refused to use his knowledge of her husband's defection as a means of getting her to rebound into his embrace, begins to fall in with his view of the situation. She dutifully forbids him access to her house, but only after the preliminary precaution of ascertaining his address. The curtain thereupon falls, and the houselights reveal the hot flush of embarrassment on the faces of the audience...