Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who conduct Boy Scout affairs in the City of Cleveland passed a resolution last fortnight, saying: "Be it resolved, that whereas recent advertisements have been creeping closer and closer toward the inducement of girls to adopt the smoking of cigarettes, and whereas this purpose is being more and more plainly announced, it is felt to be the duty of this council to declare that the now-appearing billboard advertisement which portrays a young lady reading a letter to the effect that girls who seek pleasure in smoking are flocking to that given brand of cigarette, is an advertisement which...
...commend to each of the million Boy Scouts of our country that he adopt as his 'daily good turn' the creation of a sentiment disapproving of such unpatriotic efforts as the enticement of our girls and young...
...Congress may of course protect the secrecy of telephone messages by making them, when intercepted, inadmissible in evidence in Federal criminal trials, by direct legislation, and thus depart from the common law of evidence. But the courts may not adopt such a policy by attributing an enlarged and unusual meaning to the Fourth Amendment...
...room, then, for architectural experimentation. Even where old styles are used, as now by Mr. Coolidge, adaptation is made inevitable by the uses to which the new buildings are put. The usual and the best practice in these circumstances is to advertise a competition among architects, and to adopt the best plans submitted from architects all over the country. Thus originated the plans for the beautiful Tribune building in Chicago. In the building of the Harvard Business School, the same procedure was followed, although the winning plans were slightly altered by the "Harvard achitects...
...academic year 1928-1929 will see the College of Arts and Sciences of Cornell University adopt a pre-examination discontinuance of formal class attendance which is patterned upon the Harvard Reading Period. The arrangement at Cornell is variously modified to make the offspring more conservative than the parent. Their hereditary similarities appear in the resolution of the Cornell faculty...