Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible rict from taking place in City Square with only minor injuries a week ago the National Guard fired into a raging riot in Teoedo, causing two deaths. This is not an unfair comparison for often in this country police have been forced, sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly, to adopt such tactics in a crisis of this sort. From this angle, the immediate usage of methods which involve only slight brutality to stop these demonstrations is more sensible than waiting until drastic steps are necessitated...
...from high schools and private schools to Harvard each year need to be treated like so many babies and in addition require survey courses which would best find their place in a school curriculum. This is not only wrong: it is a positive hindrance. If the colleges are to adopt a more liberal course, and it is to be presumed that the other large colleges will follow Harvard's experiments, the schools must turn out students capable of managing themselves. It is up to them to relax their stringent regulations and instill in their students a new sense of responsibility...
...that the choice of the American people is between Fascism and Communism, neither of which can be espoused by any one who believes in our democratic institutions of self-govern-ment; nor can any public official who has taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States adopt or officially advocate such a program...
...diplomats' gallery while Stanley Baldwin continued the Government's case: "One of the conclusions to which I have been driven is that there is no such thing as a sanction which will work which does not mean war. In other words if we adopt sanctions we must be ready for war, and if we adopt them without being ready for war we are not honest trustees of the nation. ... If this country is giving Europe a collective guarantee or collective sanctions, it means we must make this country a great deal stronger than it is today...
Elementary courses could very well adopt this policy and attain some benefits from a plan with which they now have no connection. That three meetings a week for such courses during the Reading Period is unnecessary is admitted, and by cutting them down to two, both the student and the course would benefit...