Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor observers, or he did not care that the enactment of the Labor Disputes Bill would be followed by a series of strikes as the A. F. of L. sets out to attempt to unionize the country. Everyone knew that the idea that labor, management and the public would accept the act with "a sense of responsibility and willing cooperation" was but a pious hope...
...presented at court in a full-length white satin gown the week Wimbledon started (see cut); and how, finally, the two girls had played through to last week's final. Now, at match point, there seemed nothing left for the crowd to see except how Helen Jacobs would finally accept the victory for which she had waited so long, how Mrs. Moody, who had never had to do it before, would acknowledge defeat...
...from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing: he offered to accept $225,000 less and salvage some of his equipment. Bribery! yelled the Times's enemies. With the structure of its new home completed, the Times was faced with the possibility of another long-drawn condemnation proceeding. Nevertheless, canny Publisher Chandler served notice that he would not move until...
Jean Chiappe promptly challenged Pierre Godin to a duel.* Attempting to weasel, M. Godin at first refused to accept the challenge on the ground that M. Chiappe had "forfeited his dueling rights" by refusing to fight a Corsican editor in 1933. Later he accepted...
...Borotra promptly replied with a letter denouncing Sportswriter Poulain. Last week, the Borotra v. Poulain controversy became a subject of international excitement when Sportswriter Poulain sent Tennist Borotra a challenge to a duel which Tennist Borotra, at Wimbledon for the 55th All-England Championships, angrily announced that he would accept. In Paris three days later, the seconds of both combatants put their heads together diplomatically, announced that no one had been insulted, that the duel would be canceled...