Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee on the revision of football rules held another meeting Saturday in New York. It was decided not to adopt the new system of scoring which has been proposed but to retain the old system without change...
Besides these more important aspects of the play there is another not uninteresting to Latin students. The whole is given with the comparatively lately adopted 'Roman pronunciation.' Many persons are wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English...
...usage even of the early centuries of our era, but the vowels have been preserved by them without significant change. In English, however, no sound is sufficiently preserved to be understood by an ancient Roman. It was this ultra perversion of the Roman sounds that led to the adoption of the present system. As a change was necessary there seemed no better course than to adopt the pronunciation which according to sufficient evidence was, so far as any approximation can be made to a foreign tongue, really used by the Romans. We may be sure that a Roman could understand...
...meeting of the executive committee of the H. A. A., held last evening, it was voted to adopt new rules to govern sparring, and to give two prizes at the winter meeting in such events as have more than three competitors...
...represented at the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes held in New York on Saturday. It was voted to allow a seven-foot run in the hammer throwing, to hold the preliminaries of the field events and the 440 yds. run in the morning, and to adopt new rules to govern bicycle races. The treasurer reported a balance of $15,000 in the treasury. H. M. Wheel-wright was elected president of the association...