Word: according
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few years", Mr. Byrne concluded, "a feeling has developed among legal men that the law of the United States must be revised and codified to bring it into accord with the principles of the men who founded this country's constitution. I can conceive of no nobler or more appealing work than that, which must fall upon the younger generation of lawyers, of compiling the law which through the ten centuries of accumulation since its origin in England has developed into the greatest system of law the world has ever seen...
...Allies are in perfect accord with one another, but are keeping their weather-eye skinned for signs of Turkish double dealing. Possibly they have in mind the Treaty of London, May 30, 1913, in which Turkey- in-Europe was driven east of a line drawn from Enos (on the Aegean Sea) to Midia (on the Black Sea). When a commission of the Powers arrived to delimit the boundary, the Turks said: " Ah! We agreed to a line between Enos and Midia, but a curved line to take in Adrianople! " And they won their point...
...That the Standard Oil Companies completely control the oil industry of the United States. That they have partitioned the territory of the United States among the member companies of the Standard group as spoils, and acting in perfect accord they (a) fix the price which the producer of crude oil receives at the well, (b) the price which the refiner receives for gasoline and kerosene...
...Davis, "students must be ready to believe many things, and must be prepared to carry the evidence to its conclusion, even though it upset some previous beliefs or opinions. If they add to previous knowledge a careful and orderly consideration of the topic, and shape their beliefs to accord with new facts, then the scientific process begins, and subjects treated in this manner, when they exist in the field of nature, become natural history...
...momentous day which sees the passing of hand furnished boxes for the Junior Prom and also the total eclipse of the Senior Picnic. We may safely assume that "Harvard Indifference" is in full ascendancy, when an entire Senior class can offer no suggestions to its officers so happily in accord with the expressed desires of Mr. Volstead...