Word: cordiales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages are consumed only in very small amounts. But whiskey, gin or rum, having approximately the same alcoholic content, are frequently taken at a rate which...
...such contests as today's closely link Harvard in cordial relations with its neighbors the shadow of the Athletic Association's avowed rotating schedule policy looms ominous in the under-graduate mind. The result of long standing intercollegiate rivalry is to give certain games a permanent place on the schedule. It is not altogether comfortable to have to realize that a rotating policy remains somewhere in the background as a potential rude interruption to the natural course of events...
...fifty thousand civilians with the rhythmic tread of soldiers on parade. And at the Stadium, the counter-point crashes into crescendo. Simplicity, incarnated in the Corps from the Hudson faces across the field unending Variety, personified by the men on the banks of the Charles. Harvard takes a cordial and somewhat selfish pleasure in bidding the Cadets welcome...
...responsibility for building the Treaty Navy. He watched Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Commander in chief of the U. S. Fleet, sworn in as his successor. Then he turned to the congregated officers and said: "Gentlemen, I just want to say goodbye and to thank you for your loyal and cordial assistance...
...Although Rumania is anxious to maintain the most cordial relations with Hungary, any attempt to place Otto on the throne would be considered a breach of treaties and international agreements to which Rumania is a party...