Word: accordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accord with the order; of Generals Manzo and Cruz and Topete,"I said General Iturbe curtly, "I invite you to enter into arrangements for the purpose of avoiding bloodshed...
...arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such state...
Since the President has stated that contemplated changes in public service would not require a large recruiting of new personnel, he will undoubtedly draft his diplomats from more ornate but less exacting service in European posts, to add prestige to South American embassies. The proposed plan is in accord with the experienced organizing ability of Mr. Hoover, and diplomats will soon learn that the needs of the service outweigh the personal preferences of those who are a part...
...inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...
...slovakia, in Polish Silesia, and in the region, of the Polish corridor. In the treaties by which the new states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests of minorities. Practically all the states of eastern Europe, except Russia, are bound by agreements to accord these subject peoples equality of treatment, education in their own language and religious freedom, and in general to abstain from oppressive measures. But in 1919 as in the period before the war, it was thought impossible to apply similar regulations to the larger powers because such provisions obviously amount...