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  • Paris, n.d. Cassin, René, "La Declaration universelle et la mise en oeuvre des droits de l'homme", in Académie de droit international de La Haye: Recueil des cours.

    René Cassin - Biography 1968

  • I have already mentioned the forty French Academicians who, according to Howell, 'used to meet every Munday to refine and garble [that is, to sift] the French language of all pedantic and old words, as also of some superfluous consonants, and put such another dictionary to light as Crusca in Italy,' and who, in doing the letter A, remembered the word Académie only in time to slip it in at the last moment.

    On Dictionaries 1969

  • It does not mean, he says, that the philosopher Plato, who in a certain century in Athens in a school called the Acad - emy, formed of his pupils, must reappear in the future during an infinity of centuries in the same city, in the same school, before the same public, and teach the same lessons.

    CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • I have already mentioned the forty French Academicians who, according to Howell, 'used to meet every Munday to refine and garble [that is, to sift] the French language of all pedantic and old words, as also of some superfluous consonants, and put such another dictionary to light as Crusca in Italy,' and who, in doing the letter A, remembered the word Académie only in time to slip it in at the last moment.

    On Dictionaries 1924

  • The French have a body called the Académie Française whose mandate is to preserve the French language and mediate changes.

    Snipr/SnipURL - Most interesting snipped URLs 2010

  • You may have bad luck of gettiing a "weird copy" of Acad, that is all I can say, if nothing can solve it. wrote in message news: 5626215@discussion. autodesk.com ...

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • As such, Mme. Yourcenar (1903-1987) was, in effect, a writer without a country, though she was the first woman elected to the Acad é mie Fran ç aise (in 1980).

    Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor Joseph Epstein 2010

  • Acad Med 2008; 83:1146-1152 4. D'Souza R: The importance of spirituality in medicine and its application to clinical practice.

    Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: Does A Physician's Religious Beliefs Impact Patient Care? M.D. Richard C. Senelick 2010

  • In the 1880s, Corinth and Slevogt enrolled in the popular Acad é mie Julian; Slevogt returned to Paris in 1900, when he exhibited in the German section of the Paris Exposition.

    Nature With a German Accent Karen Wilkin 2010

  • Acad will allow one spot per distributor, either 30 or 60 seconds in length.

    Oscars to show exclusive movie trailers for upcoming films 2008

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