Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move in the right direction. The so-called "general honors" degree has been for many years a back door to scholastic distinction, more and more out of keeping with the concentration and tutorial systems. The great cause for regret is that the faculty did not see fit to adopt the recommendation of the division of History, Government, and Economics that the degree be abolished altogether...
Senator Nye used warmer language: "If what seems to have been the policy of NRA is continued the plunderers may well adopt 'The Last Round-Up' as their theme song and trample under heel whatever remains of independent business and make the consumer a mere slave...
Forty minutes were devoted to the loudest and most frenzied cheering the Dictator has ever received in the Chamber. When the Corporative State law was proposed, the whole Chamber leaped up to adopt it by acclaim. Il Duce stilled the pandemonium, insisted on a vote, cast the first ballot himself. The count, presumably unanimous, was not mentioned in dispatches...
...Majesty's Government," announced Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "cannot permit any Dutch municipality to adopt an attitude hostile to a nation with which the relations of Her Majesty's Government are friendly...
...ball-carrier's body other than hands or feet touches the ground; 4) when a ball goes out of bounds, bring it in 15 yd. from the sidelines, instead of 10 yd.; 5) restore the old rule whereby either side may run with a recovered fumble; 6) adopt a "windy day" rule permitting a team within its own 20-yd. line to surrender the ball 25 yd. down the field, rather than kick against the wind; 7) let an incomplete forward pass over the goal line count only as a lost down instead of a touchback (except on fourth...