Word: accordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well did Mr. Gann know that for his wife to reach her eminence, many an official wheel had had to. turn. The Vice President had protested against a State Department ruling which failed to accord Mrs. Gann full recognition (TIME, April 15). The matter was in the hands of Secretary of State Stimson...
...Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering. But where loomed the encroachments of Western civilization they cringed, or turned away...
...Radio Corp. of America that it would be pleasant for all concerned if the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. should take over Radio's newborn (TIME, April 1) subsidiary, R.C.A. Communications, Inc. So formal and so important was this friendly agreement that it at once was called an ACCORD. A price was mentioned, around $100,000,000. Vice President David Sarnoff of Radio and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan's Paris house talked details. U. S. directors of both companies hastily met and approved...
...recent revision in requirements for concentration in the field of Sociology and Social Ethics appear to be fully in accord not only with good sense but established precedent. History, Government and Economics has for sometime required three general examinations, one in the field as a whole, one in the department specialized in, and one in a very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition...
...accord with the new arrangement German and French are placed on a par with Latin so that a student may offer an advanced knowledge of any one of these three to satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge of one language. This is in line with the evolution from the strict rules of a number of years ago when it was necessary for under-graduates to appear before an examiner and be questioned individually by reading passages of a language text-book and answering questions on them...