Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting on the bill I have to consider whether it is desirable to adopt a change of Federal policies from regulation of utilities to their ownership and operation; whether the lease provision is genuinely workable. . . . And in general the commonplace, unromantic facts which test the merits and demerits of this proposition as a business. . . . This happens to be an engineering project and is subject to the cold examination of engineering facts...
...unburdened by the traditions of Magdalen College; they are named after men who were an integral part of a more democratic world. It would be a fitting tribute to them if the new houses be made more American than the first two units. If but three houses should adopt the student waiter system, there would be employment for sixty or more undergraduates to whom work is the only means to education. Not only that, but a lesson in democracy would be taught both to waiters and diners. Harvard's roots may extend to England, but her nourishment comes from...
...submit that Eton boys, with all the interests of the river and the playing-fields and the chance of practically every recreation which wealth and association afford, should resolve no longer to seek pleasure in hunting timid hares to death, but if cross-country exercise is still desired, should adopt the drag hunt, as practiced for years by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as by several of the military staff, and other colleges...
...judge from Alabama and a sincere Dry, argued for a further trial of Prohibition-as-is. Said he: "If proper enforcement and observance are not had . . . within a reasonable period or if a better system is shown to exist, it will be time enough to abandon Prohibition and to adopt the better substitute...
...asks Chief Travers, "could Constance be guarded from harm? . . . How easy for a desperate criminal to masquerade as a reporter or photographer and await his chance to mutilate or kill a member of the family. . . . There was one obvious solution, and Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Morrow chose to adopt it. Late on Monday, May 27, 1929. a laconic announcement was issued [that they] had been married and had left on their honeymoon. . . . The siege of the Morrow estate [was] lifted. Detectives now were able to guard Constance Morrow efficiently...