Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American foreign policy is determined not by him [the President] and two-thirds of the Senate but by one-third of the Senate, which will withhold its consent. . . . It is the fact that one-third may veto and go unscathed?unless perchance the issue should be a stupendous one?that directly invites the Senate to substitute its anfractuosities for the executive's desires...
Puffed and prideful, Signor Director General Marini telegraphed news of his superpatriotic Commandments to II Duce at Rome, In reply came the silence of consent. Other school superintendents throughout Italy hastened to command little lips and tongues to drill as at Milan...
...last stronghold of amateur athletics, the schools and colleges, although there still seems to be a feeling that appearances must be maintained at any cost. Evasions and technicalities are used to get around the spirit of the amateur rule. If the public permits them it tacitly gives its consent to professionalism and opens the way for its active sponsors...
Nothing, of course, can be done without the consent of the Eliot family. But sooner or later the proposal will gain headway to establish either an Eliot Museum or to dedicate some spot or structure to the great President's memory. The house in which he lived for so many years in Cambridge is not, like the Longfellow house, one of the architectural landmarks of the city. It lacks the charm of setting of the pre-Revolutionary houses along Brattle Street...
Candidates may choose any subject suitable for treatment in literary form which they desire, provided that the committee sanctions the selection. Theses that form part of the regular work in any of the regular work in any of the elective courses may be offered with the consent of the instructor...