Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consistent reader and subscriber of TIME and do not overlook an opportunity to boost your paper. . . . Once or twice in the past I have noticed certain facts about automobiles that you have stated, which are not exactly in accord with my own knowledge and information. . . . For instance, in a recent issue [TIME, Jan. 24] you had quite a story regarding the New York Show, and I was greatly disappointed not to see any mention of the new Little Marmon 8 which, without question, was one of the most striking exhibits at the Show, and is today one of the most...
...exist between the two neighboring peoples. President Calles has already stated unofficially that Mexico is willing to submit certain aspects of the Mexican-American controversy over the alien land and oil laws to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. Such a course would be clearly in accord with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and of the convention of The Hague. It is compatible with the nature of the difference, since at the root of the difficulty lies a clearly justiciable question--that of the infringement of the property rights of American citizens by the application of the Mexican...
...Judge Lindsey reconcile this code with the Bible? He did not. "Those of my views which are in accord with Holy Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes...
...Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John, as Oswald of the softening brain, convincing at times, seemed entirely too self-possessed in the crisis...
...then at last some smart feller on the Lampoon found the way out. He'd make it so unpleasant for Princeton to come up to Cambridge to play football that the Tigers would sever relations of their own accord, avoiding Harvard the embarrassment...