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Word: accept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret the refusal of the University to accept the Hanfstaengl offer of a Munich Scholarship. The petty question of manners and formality is not at all revelant to the actual issue of the case: namely, whether or not student would derive benefit from such European study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/25/1936 | See Source »

...Banks & Brakes," in your Feb. 10 issue: Please accept thanks from a non-business-minded coed for a very lucid explanation of inflation and credit matters. I suggest that every girl who has as much trouble as I do in grasping economic principles should keep this issue on her desk, to be read faithfully once a week till thoroughly absorbed. That will be my procedure, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/21/1936 | See Source »

...corporation are 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/20/1936 | See Source »

...could not really afford, because it was her childhood home, and she secretly wanted her children to be molded into her shape. Claudia prided herself on being a modern mother, and most of all on her absolute honesty. She loved to analyze herself before others, invite and apparently accept criticism of her infallible conduct-and then go on exactly as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Bird | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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