Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the universities of Germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe fundamental to universities throughout the world...
This was too much for Bishop Stires, who preached last week: "Today we consecrate another bishop in the Church of God, and send him to Liberia. . . . Can it be possible that people calling themselves Christians are content to accept Christianity for themselves but are unwilling to pass it on to others...
Paul von Hindenburg, last President of the German Republic really paved the way for the Nazi revolution, by refusing to allow Heinrich Bruening to accept the premiership of Prussia while still Chancellor of the Reich, Bruening charged yesterday, in his last Godkin lecture...
From 1895 to 1909 Dean Clifford was at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Electricity. In 1909 he came to Harvard to accept the Gordon McKay Professorship; he has been Dean of the School of Engineering since 1930. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society...
...refusal of the University to accept this scholarship is not upholding the tenets of liberalism, except in a very narrow sense; the refusal is doing nothing in itself to mitigate any probable abuses of scholastic facilities in Germany; but it does any to some student of limited means the opportunity to investigate those "abuses" for himself. Ernst W. Mueller...