Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club, has a corps of wives and one of the world's greatest collections of emeralds. When he headed the Indian delegation to the Round Table Conference in London, he strongly supported the India Bill. Since then he has crucially backslid. It seemed likely that he would accept last week's invitation, inasmuch as the rainy season is drawing near in Patiala...
...CONVINCED THAT YAGOL, WHO IS A PHI BETA KAPPA AND A MAN OF HIGH IDEALS, IS BEING PERSECUTED BY PERSONS WHO SEEK TO TURN CURRENT ANTI-RED HYSTERIA TO THEIR OWN PROFIT. HEARSTLING JACOBS' HOSTILITY TOWARD EMORY IS EASILY EXPLAINED BY FACT THAT EMORY REFUSES TO ACCEPT OGLETHORPE'S CREDIT BECAUSE THAT INSTITUTION IS NOT ACCREDITED EITHER BY SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OR ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES...
...hole, many a Democrat who wanted to curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing wage amendment won 44-to-43-24 Democrats deserting the President, all but four Republicans deserting the principles of economy...
...much more likely to be disappointed than anybody in Toronto. They want to be noticed. Their friends back home expect them to be noticed. Sometimes the friends back home 'on the back concessions' expect an invitation for themselves. They may not be able at the time to accept it but they live in hope that some day they...
Ernest Newman started out to be an Indian Civil Servant and ended up by being Britain's foremost musical critic. When this London musicologist publishes a new biography, his fellow critics are inclined to accept his findings as sound, scholarly, vividly final. To his works on Gluck, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Beethoven, Bach, Berlioz and Wagner, Ernest Newman, at 66, last week added his last word, on Franz Liszt...