Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That the Southern Conference be urged to adopt a fundamental code to embody the freshman rule, the migratory rule, the professional rule, and a rule providing for the maintenance of the present entrance and scholastic rquirements; or otherwise, that the University of Virginia withdraw from the Southern Conference and adopt such a code...
...able to buy an additional 50 war planes. Unconfirmed was an exuberant Nanking rumor that "Chiang has secretly erected the world's largest poison gas factory and the Japanese know it!" Solid Backing. The Congress of the Knomintane, had been scheduled to meet Nov. 12 in Nanking to adopt a new Constitution for China. Last month this date was abruptly postponed...
...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
...lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these points could be made without resort to strikes and violence along the coastline, if either side would adopt a spirit of fair play. For clearly the best interests of the shipping trade demand a decent standard of living for sailors, as well as an equitable return to the owners of the ships...
...come back to an international monetary standard on the only basis which appears to give general confidence." At this Britain's bankers cheered lustily and with unwonted enthusiasm Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England pledged to Mr. Chamberlain that, if only the British Cabinet will adopt a policy of letting British bankers know what they want done instead of keeping them in the dark, "the Government will at all times find us willing, with good will and loyalty, to do what they direct as though we were under legal compulsion." Meanwhile last week the tiny Papal...