Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Cahill was prompt to grant an interview to a representative of the Universal (News) Service, which was printed by the U. S. gumchewers' press. In this interview she said...
...Radiograms began to come in. Boy Scouts of America: "Six hundred ninety members Boy Scouts of America extend heartiest welcome. Command us for any service. Hope you will grant little time at reception of our world's champion Jamboree Scouts returning steamer Lancastria Sept. 6 or 7. Warmest greetings. Colin Livingstone, President...
...just as impossible to say that there is no life as to say that there is. The evidence is circumstantial to a refined degree. But if there is life on Mars, it is in different form from that existing on the Earth. Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi, and to deny animal existence...
...agreement was contained in two treaties, a commercial treaty and a general treaty. The commercial treaty granted reciprocal most-favored-nation treatment; that is, that each country agreed to grant to the nationals of the other the same commercial privileges granted to any other nation. Diplomatic immunity was extended to cover consulates and trade commissions. One curious, self-contradictory clause was that the Soviet Government is to assume responsibility for the transactions of Soviet trade delegations which are to be subjected to British Law, but, "in view of the responsibility of these transactions, which is assumed by the Government...
Away back in 1889 Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, reformer and pacifist, lost his throne by decreeing the release of hundreds of thousands of slaves belonging to the coffee planters without compensation. At the same time his pacifism alienated the militarists and his refusal to grant them the rights they demanded caused them to join the planters; since that time the two (planters and militarists) groups have remained together...