Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm. The patrician quality which has distinguished all her operatic heroines is Bori's own. She was born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made her debut in Italy in 1908. Four years later she was at the Metropolitan singing with Caruso at an opening night...
...raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
...Harvard were to adopt the universal undergraduate athletic levy it would not be a new experiment, since Yale and Dartmouth have used it with success. At Dartmouth the plan works excellently, since over three-quarters of the students use the gymnasium and other athletic buildings. Because they are paying for them in any case, the students are more apt to take advantage of the buildings and thus derive benefit from physical activity...
...consider that Mr. Eden has just admitted again, our 'assertion of claim.' ":* ¶Received with loud and significant cheers a speech by former Civil Lord of the Admiralty George Lambert in which this mild-mannered Liberal M. P. urged His Majesty's Government to "adopt a two-power air standard-a British Royal Air Force twice as strong as that of any other nation! . . . The League of Nations has failed, and we must rely on our own strong right arm. . . . There is more loot in London than in Addis Ababa, and I prefer that London should...
...Republican party take over intact the planks in the 1932 Democratic platform relating to a balanced budget, sound currency, reduction in governmental expenditures, and abandonment of the policy of crop restriction for agriculture," the Colonel declared. He was one of the first to advocate that the Republican party adopt as part of its platform those Democratic planks which President Roosevelt has failed to carry...