Word: akin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since 1744 ships may tie up in New York Harbor without pausing for medical inspection of passengers and crew. The U. S. Public Health Service and the New York City Health Department hereafter will take the word of the chief medical officers aboard SENIOR SURGEON AKIN "Permission is granted...
...motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York may avoid all delay at Quarantine by taking advantage of "radio pratique." This is a convenience worked out last year by Dr. Charles Vivian Akin Jr., senior surgeon...
...commercial shipments of birds of the parrot family on board. . . ." Chief Akin then telephones (cost to the Government: 10(0 to the ship's agents who relay this message by radio (cost to the agents: $9), "Permission is granted ... to proceed without stopping at Quarantine...
...many to whom he was an impersonal monarch of a distant country he is now enshrined in our hearts with a respect that is akin to worship. No doubt the redoubtable Stanley Baldwin could have condoned a few "backdoor indiscretions." Hail noble Prince, for being true to your principles, the greatest gentleman of them all. The world salutes...
Windbag Demosthenes denounced this Philip with his mad scheme of a pan-Hellenic united front. ". . . Philip--a man who not only is no Greek, and no way akin to the Greeks, but is not even a barbarian from a respectable country--no, a pestilent fellow of Macedon, a country from which we never even get a decent slave..." In 338 B.C., however, at the battle of Chaeronea, Philip whipped the Athenians and gave them peace on astonishingly lenient terms. He became captain-general for the war against Persia...