Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts that both Germany and Poland have unsettled quarrels with Lithuania and that Poland does not want Czechoslovakia in an Eastern European league. But so potent was the Franco-Russian combination that last week there was a fair chance that most of the invitees will be obliged to accept...
...ecstasy after his New York City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...
...doubt but that the action of the trustees bore considerable connection with official opinion. A statement from Mr. Woodward, secretary to President Conant, however, said that the University "has taken no action." It is clear that the University was thus at fault on two scores; first, they did not accept responsibility for an action which they had instigated, and secondly, they did not deal directly with the students concerned...
...French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would be more than pleased if the U. S. would accept a mandate over Liberia. The U. S. has persistently dodged. Roaring defiance in Manhattan last week Liberia's dusky Consul Walter F. Walker cried...
...select U. S. doctors who belong to the American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case of Graves...