Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Admiralty refused to sanction steam engines for men o'war, called them visionary, impractical. The eagle-beaked Duke of Wellington spoke bitterly against the International Exhibition of 1851 because it would "bring too many strangers into the country." The British Museum Library has consistently refused to adopt a card catalog, elaborately enters every acquisition in bulky ledgers. Excuse: "The sharp bits of pasteboard are apt to cut one's fingers...
Perhaps the ladies might obtain the desired notoriety by informing the country's press of their precedence to Harvard's house plan. But in doing this, it might be well for them to mention incidentally that Oxford happened to adopt a system something like the house plan in the fourteenth century...
There's been discussion aplenty of late about the advisability of the amateur hockey teams adopting the rules and regulations which govern professional rink play and, if the simon purse do seem inclined to take such action, just how much of the 1929-30 edition of the Code Calder they should adopt. A couple of months ago when college sextets were preparing for their winter campaigns, New England coaches and officials assembled to discuss just such changes, but the idea was dismissed until another season and those gathered in solemn conclave concentrated on the problem of rule interpretation. Both...
...twelve-hour day in the plants of the U. S. Steel Corp. by the late great Steelman Elbert Henry Gary, who was long famed for referring to the Bible in public speeches. Mr. Gary did not say what hours would be tolerated, but remarked "it is now time to adopt the eight-hour...
...From 1903 to 1907 we conducted our athletics under this rule; if we re-adopt it now, it will be only with a great many provisions. I am afraid we can not make any compromise arrangement with the Navy. This is too bad, as our encounters were colorful affairs, and sometimes, as in 1922 in Chicago, among the best games of the season...