Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless in appearance that the Allies let it go through: "My engagement...
Early last March the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College approved one of the most radical educational experiments projected in any of the larger American colleges in recent years. The plan, which received official sanction, at that time, called for a cessation of classes during two periods of the academic year--the two and a half weeks between the Christmas vacation and the mid-year examination period and the three and a half weeks preceding final examinations. These periods were to be known as reading periods, and their adoption was to be optional with the various departments of the University...
Presbyterian General Assembly declare: ". . . Yet is adultery alone clearly recognized in the New Testament as cause for divorce. Therefore the Church cannot sanction divorce on any other ground nor the remarriage of divorced persons other than the innocent parties in divorces granted for adultery; and it shall be unlawful for a minister to marry any divorced person except one so divorced...
...expected that Dartmouth will sanction this new agreement between Harvard and Yale and will perhaps join with them in having a neutral individual, no relation to either participant, choose the officials for all the big games If Dartmouth agrees to join Harvard and Yale Langford will no doubt be the man she will allow to choose the officials for football games with major eastern rivals...
...clear the air, Premier Wakatsuki attempted to secure approval from the Imperial Privy Council to extend enormous credits from the Bank of Japan to save the Bank of Taiwan. The Privy Council, a body of august solons with super-legislative power, responsible only to the Emperor, refused to sanction the Cabinet's plan. So, although Premier Wakatsuki had a parliamentary majority, he resigned with his Cabinet...