Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question up for debate this evening as announced by Associate Professor L. J. A. Mercier, is: "Resolved. That the United States adopt Foreign Minister Briand's treaty; outlawing war between France and the United States...
...almost non-existent were the accomplishments of the Conference that Mr. Hughes pointed out as its greatest specific achievement the recommendation, adopted last week, that a Pan-American Arbitration Conference shall meet in Washington within a year. This will be the scene of Olympic games dedicated to the drawing up of a convention to "adopt obligatory arbitration . . . with the minimum exceptions." Exaggerating as only a great statesman can, Mr. Hughes described the promulgation of this recommendation as marking "the happiest day of my life...
...that excellent hostelry, The Hotel Roosevelt, what would this be? It would be a publicity stunt. What would a hardboiled, wise, cynical, alert newspaper reporter think it was? He would think it was a front-page story. This, at least, was the opinion which intelligent persons were compelled to adopt after witnessing last week in Manhattan an example of journalistic susceptibility to unoriginal press-agenting...
...Seniors concentrating in the Divisions that adopt the proposed plan attendance on courses in the Division shall cease at the Christmas recess in the case of those graduating in February, and May I in case of others...
...would naturally on such occasions be fed to other than literary lions, are keeping, the projected revellers tightly strapped to the stake. The materials for Bacchanalia cannot be obtained in sufficient amount, and the police would not allow Saturnalia. Before the destruction finally comes, then, the authorities must adopt a more liberal attitude toward orgies. Suetonius himself could not tell a good story on Pickwick Pale alone...