Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tropical vermin. Finally he proposed a deal: Mr. Firestone would cut interest on his Liberian loan from 7% to 5%; Liberia would frown on the slave traffic, try to do some-thing about disease; Secretary Hull would grant diplomatic recognition and send Liberia a minister; President Barclay would accept a "foreign" (i. e. white) adviser...
Middlesex Hospital investigators found that the veins would accept oxygenated preserved blood drop by drop by the venoclysis method. A patient who revived sufficiently to undergo a major operation caused jubilation at Middlesex Hospital. That patient received 40 drops a minute for 51¼ hours-five quarts of blood...
...scarcely need to tell you of my great regret, both personal and official, that I must at last, with great reluctance, accept your resignation...
Since 1875 Fifth Avenue Bank has sat, like a portly, dignified oldster, at the corner of Fifth Avenue & 44th Street, Manhattan.* When it was founded most bankers hesitated to accept women's accounts because bank lobbies were usually crowded with male customers "among whom it is not agreeable for a lady to penetrate." Fifth Avenue Bank thought differently. It built a handsome parlor where ladies could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided...
William L. Warner, assistant professor of Social Auhropology, who will accept a position elsewhere...