Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to accept the invitation to be present at the meeting tomorrow night at which Dean Hanford is to preside and you are to speak. It seems to me this way of bringing the questions of war and peace before the undergraduate body is much to be preferred to the more spectacular methods of demonstrations and parades, and is furthermore in accord with the best traditions of this College. Please extend to those undergraduates who have arranged this meeting my sincere appreciation of their efforts to see that an earnest discussion of these matter takes place and that the different...
Eliot's method, in general, is like Browning's, if we accept this thesis of Professor Matthiessen's. It is a methods particularly adapted to poets of learning and of information. Some readers have indeed hold this opinion for some time; it is encouraging to see it in print, but those readers will be sorry that this book was published or at any rate written before the publication of Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral", a dramatic poem in the full meaning of the term. That poem demonstrated, one may venture to suggest, the virtues and vices of Eliot...
While the affair depends largely on several "ifs", it is considered likely that Colonel Apted would regard such a proposal in a receptive frame of mind. Should he accept this post, he will have to relinquish his connection with the College...
...Vagabond likes to feel that in the old times there were giants upon the earth; even as there are great men living today. He is willing to accept his old friends for the good they did despite the bare truth about cherry trees, Shepland ponies, false teeth and plaster feet...
...bloodless coup d'etat reached dapper little George II in his hotel in London's West End just before dinner. He dined with his aide, went out to a Mayfair party and had the kind of evening anyone would envy, telling his friends he would not accept the throne of Greece unless a majority of the people wanted...