Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity of the House of Commons, if I may adapt and adopt an ancient phrase, 'is the activity of the soul and the way of virtue or not without virtue, and that, too, in a full sense.' I think the decision of Lord Denman, then Lord Chief Justice, in a case many years ago, is sufficient for the present purpose. Lord Denman said...
...Such an act would not benefit either the Government or the people," abruptly announced Chiang. "The Government will not devalue or adopt a paper standard for the currency...
Since the Student Council faces a live and controversial problem for the first time in several years, in the Senior Marshal election and recount, any action which it may adopt tonight will shape its effectiveness as an influential student organization. If it should fall to adopt a decisive course, student government at Harvard may suffer a telling blew. To phrase the question simply, inaction will destroy its prestige while a courageous course will demonstrate that it is fulfilling its normal function...
...only for the opportunities it gives Shirley Temple: to weep when she hears that her mother has gone to Heaven; to tiptoe away from her nursery when she learns that the couple she lives with do not like her; to chuckle when an aviator (James Dunn) who wants to adopt her lets her dress in his pajamas; to smile bravely when he makes a parachute jump with her in his arms; to look slyly good-humored when she is arranging the reconciliation between the aviator and his girl, which solves the question of her own future home. Shirley Temple handles...
...Sabbath Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform, stiffened its back last week. Once again in the Press was news of the kind of change which L. S. F. S. A. P. E. C. R. is pledged to oppose to the death. Chile announced it is going to adopt a perpetual calendar, and in Dayton, Ohio the Federal Council of Churches opened its biennial meeting with the declaration that the great Christian churches of the world are now in substantial agreement concerning calendar reform...