Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rewards should be to the deserving and punishment to the wicked. The second course involves a rather different line of reasoning. This, naturally is the recognition of Russia, with everything that would go with it. Its supporters argue that in dealing with other nations, Russia would be forced to adopt their methods and abandon her own; that the influx of foreign capital would necessarily make Russia conservative economically; that an uncorked bottle is less likely to explode than a corked...
...enter Harvard on certificate; but those general impressions would indicate that the defects of the plan overbalanced its virtues. To turn to a different proposal, it is something of a question, in view of the apparent necessity for English F, why the College has not yet seen fit to adopt its committee's recommendation that all men who cannot write acceptable English should be excluded. Finally there is still room arbitrarily to raise standards both for admission and after admission...
League of Nations?"Our country has definitely refused to adopt and ratify the covenant of the League of Nations. . . . The incident, so far as we are concerned, is closed...
...Orthodox (Russian and Greek) Churches together this week. It is the matter of the calendar. Representatives of the Pope, of the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Ecumenical Patriarch are sitting together at Geneva for the first time since 1453. All three Churches are now deciding whether they can adopt a fixed date for Easter...
...Animals adopt the structural formation of the surroundings in which they live for several generations. For instance: the octopus adopts the same texture and form as the sea bottom, the grasshopper assumes the characteristics of a blade of grass...