Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December 12; on March 11, the club with sing in Manchester, N.H.; and arrangements are now pending for several concerts in the hearby cities such as Springfield, Worcester, Hartford, Pittsfield, Portland and New Haven. Arrangements are also under way, but not completed, for they have yet to get the sanction of the faculty, for a coast-to-coast tour during the Christmas vacation...
...less true that in this particular sphere of international irritation we are the representative of the rest of the civilized nations. Because of the Monroe Doctrine no European nation can act in Mexico without our sanction. We are then or at any rate ought to be internationally responsible for conditions in the land of perpetual revolution...
Several years ago a similar plan was given a spasmodic trial, but failed, despite its acknowledged value, because it lacked the official sanction of the Student Council. Such a scheme can succeed only when it is required that all meetings open to the whole or a large part of the undergraduates be listed. If this provision is enforced, the plan is deserving of a fair trial...
...Volstead Act is a law. However much we may object to its provisions, we cannot sanction its disregard by the States. Only two means of killing the present act are legitimate, either that it shall be thrown out by the Supreme Court, or that it shall be repealed by the Congress of the United States...
This memorial gift from America has already received the highest official sanction of the French government and will be placed in a position overlooking the Marne near the vilage of Meaux where the first German advance was stopped less than 20 miles from Paris on September...