Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confident thai the contract will prove to be the forerunner of other projects of a similar kind. We welcome American capital and American business men to Russia, and will accord them every facility and consideration...
...advantage of revolutionary rumors to threaten that the U. S. would cease to have that interest unless American lives and interests were fully protected. This is, said the President, "a threat to the sovereignty of Mexico that she cannot overlook and regrets with all energy because she does not accord to any foreign country the right to intervene in any form in her domestic affairs, nor is she disposed to subordinate her international relations to the exigencies of another country...
...there was something more to the visit. In the War, Mussolini and d'Annunzio, as far as they knew, had been in perfect accord fighting at the front. After the War, the accord was continued until the latter stepped out and seized Fiume. After that, when he had become the hero of Fiume, he retired to Gardone. and has never since left it. From his mountain stronghold, he has frowned upon Fascism, or has been thought to frown. Nobody really knows. Not even a principality cleared the situation. At one moment, he appears solidly against Fascism, at another indifferent...
That a spirit of accord generally exists between tutor and student is amply attested by the fact that no steps toward compulsory attendance have been necessary in our whole experience with conferences...
...theses, these three papers, are really attempting to sting the student out of his docility. The good student is always an "intractable animal" and how to get rid of him" is the eternal problem of education. With the general theses of these papers most of us are in entire accord. William James said much of it years ago in his memorable essay about the "Octopus", but more power to those who think that it is worth saying over again, forever, in all its permutations and combinations...