Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Will they accept the challenge of continue to drift no-whither in the bottomless bog of threatening anarchy...
...prompted the founders of the League of Nations, was correct. England, France, Italy and Japan will never agree to decisions which are made entirely by small nations. They must have enough power to maintain their superiority--not enough to abuse it. How can the lesser States be brought to accept this proposition? How can natural jealousy be banished and universal justice practiced...
...depression in industry is one that Congress cannot control by law-making. All it hopes to do is to stave off ruin for the farmers who have fared worse than the rest of the country. It behooves the manufacturer and business men to be broad-minded enough to accept what is obviously class legislation framed to meet the unusual conditions of a short period...
...Vanderlip and his kind are doubtless sincere in believing that this country should accept the opportunity to enrich itself if it can. But any further talk in this vein is entirely out of place. When "Ambassador" Martens sails for Russia this country will have done completely with the present Soviet type of government...
...failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed as an ordinary 'low brow...