Word: according
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Perennial. In Manheim, Pa., the Zion Lutheran Church made payment No. 172 on the church plot, in accord with Baron William Henry von Stiegel's 1772 stipulation: in return for the deed "one red rose annually in the month of June for ever . . . shall be lawfully demanded by my heirs...
...Left. The German left fell back of its own accord along the Adriatic-a necessary corollary to retreat in the west. Allied troops advanced without cost, occupied the port of Pescara, the capital of Chieti province, took over the coastal end of the lateral highway to Rome. The German left seemed to be having trouble disengaging itself for fast retreat...
...ISOLATIONIST." Editorially, the Tribune thought the idea was fine-but sturdily refused to believe him. Said the Tribune: "The President's characteristic maneuver before elections is to announce a policy in accord with the opposition's views." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat & isolationist, observed, with almost diabolical satisfaction, that the President's plan did not go as far on the internationalist side as the Republican's Mackinac Charter...
...rearward thrust of high-speed gases drives the vehicle forward. This is in accord with Newton's law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction or recoil...
...mysterious jumping coal at North Dakota's' Wild Plum School (TIME, April 24) proved last week to be in sound accord with the scientific principle of increasing entropy (i.e., that the odds are trillions of trillions to one against lumps of coal spontaneously making little leaps). It was all a hoax, compounded of the pupils' legerdemain and the teacher's myopia...