Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleges has the fine art of saving nothing in a profound and impressive style been cultivated to comparable perfection. This is at once the pride of the students and the despair of he professors, but it is evident that the latter are unnecessarily perturbed. The future for those really adopt is magnificent,-the Senate awaits the true artists...
...different from contemporaries. There will be nothing incongruous in the appearance of the modern debutante in a dress made of Tutankhamen silks. "Luxorian models are all the rage, and the Pharoahic skirt is destined to appear at Palm Beach and the Copley." And wives of the future may adopt the "Ankhsenpaten smile...
...knowledge that there may be opportunity for publication gives a genuine stimulus to poetic efforts in the University; and the series in the hands of the public becomes both a specimen and a justification of student poetry. And there is little doubt that Time will see fit to adopt at least one or two of these neophytes...
...every country save. England and New Zealand the traffic goes on the wrong side of the road." This statement is a slight exaggeration, because Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island still "keep to the left", although New Brunswick and British Columbia have recently passed laws requiring that all vehicles adopt the right turn. But the English still prefer the old method of traffic regulation, even though they have to learn to drive all over again whenever they "visit the continent" or come to America...
...Woods concluded, "since it is strongly supported in the middle and far West. In one way only can the difficulty be solved, and that is by a through enforcement of the act as it now stands. We must use every possible agency to put the matte through, for to adopt any alternative course would be to admit to all criminals that the government cannot enforce its own laws...