Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish under such attention as the committee hopes to bring to the matter. The architects may well look to their laurels when undergraduates show more discernment than they have...
...authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this business group would presumably have access to the Mayor's office. These businessmen would receive no salary from the city; their services would be donated by their companies as an act of public service...
Adjoining the new buildings, near the Freshman dormitories, opposite the Business School of Administration dormitories, and more convenient of access than is Appleton Chapel to the Mount Auburn Street and vicinity territory, it will be not far from the new center of population...
...prodigious importance of this conquest appears from its three major effects: 1) Bolivia, third largest South American country, was cut off from all access to the sea; 2) Chile acquired the largest nitrate fields in the world, taxes from which now supply over half the revenues of the Chilean Treasury; and 3) Peru was deprived even of Tacna and Arica, without which strategic provinces she cannot hope to wrest back her ravished nitrate fields...
Then came the climax. Back in the U. S., the President suffered a collapse. The incessant conflict between ideals and adamant realities had begun shattering his nerves. Even Private Secretary Tumulty was denied access to the sick man. Minor crises arose. Spurred by certain Cabinet members, Mr. Lansing called informal conferences. In the distorted imagination of the invalid President this seemed usurpation of authority. The harried idealist, taut with mental anguish, was goaded by a final sense of frustration. He complained. Mr. Lansing resigned...