Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME for July 7 I believe your correspondent is in error in stating that if New Jersey Republicans adopt a Wet platform they will be the first group of party to repudiate the 18th Amendment...
...down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny Inkslinger proposed in Old Paul's camp economy was to diminish the loggers' rations and build some ships and send the surplus produce from Old Paul's great supply farms to European markets. Old Paul did not adopt this idea because, as he said in an historic phrase, "A logging crew works on its stomach." But he did listen to Johnny Inkslinger, and hailed him as a hero, the time Johnny made possible the Onion River drive. There the wild onions were so big and strong that...
Concluded Professor Calmette with emotion: "Let us generally adopt this vaccine! Let it be administered to all children ! The question is whether you would prefer to permit your child to be exposed to the virulent tuberculosis bacillus, which is inescapable, and let him take a chance against it unprotected, or whether you will administer a vaccine which is absolutely harmless and will in all probability make him immune from an attack of the virulent bacillus...
Poland will soon adopt a new legal code upon which TIME will report, stating whether Communists will continue liable to the Death penalty after its enactment. At present the courts are somewhat lenient and the Death sentencing of Communists at Lemberg was an exception. According to despatches the accused denied that they were Communists, but the Lemberg Court held that their possession of much Communist literature established the presumption that they were Communists. Upon this presumption and its corollary that a Communist is a traitor they were sentenced to Death. Communist deputies are of course protected by their parliamentary immunity...
...When Signor Grandi and I parted," said Br'er Briand with a lift of one shaggy eyebrow, "I certainly was under the impression that we had agreed to adopt the most expedient procedure to insure success of the negotiations. . . . Unfortunately a new fact arose. . . . The Leghorn speech was made. Then there was the speech at Florence and finally that at Milan...