Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain that the only way to dissolve the idiocy created by a supine state legislature is to adopt with a vengeance the very same methods employed by those groups in whose interest it was to have the bill passed in the first place. In working for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill, or at least for the political defeat of those legislators responsible for its passage, the committee may count upon the full support of most reasonable citizens. The weapons used by the patriotic organizations in forcing through this supremely silly piece of legislation should be turned against them...
...those who feel that the United States should adopt a more sincere and effective neutrality program than the present one, the words of Bernard Baruch upon his return to the country a few days ago have a timely and impressive tone...
...opposition without a single accusation of personal apostasy; democratic and hardworking, he had always ridden to his office by subway, worked patiently to replace the company's attitude of haughty indifference with a spirit of courtesy and service. Reluctant to see him go, the trustees nonetheless voted to adopt the retirement plan, effective July 1. Next Jan. 29, for the first time in a quarter of a century, George Bruce Cortelyou will not be on hand at his office to celebrate the anniversary of William McKinley's birth by sending each department head a red carnation, favorite flower...
...bills in 1900. It dared to stop giving discounts to clergymen in 1919. It was Philadelphia's first store to install airconditioning, first to establish branches in the city's rich & regal suburbs where the Strawbridges and the Clothiers have long been socialites. It was first to adopt an efficiency filing system by which its 125,000 charge accounts are photographed with a motion picture camera and the films stored in a single cabinet. And last week Strawbridge & Clothier made national news with another innovation...
...very end in order to find out what sport you are talking about. I notice with approval that when you find that you have missed an event by a week or so, you do not try to cover yourself up by saying that the event took place "yesterday" but adopt the straightforward method of saying that it took place "recently." J. Reginald Burlingame...