Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker's dais, Representative Lester shouted: "I feel outraged and dishonored as a citizen and an official of Louisiana. . . . We, as Legislators, are called upon to take from the people the last vestige of their local political rights . . . and in all of this the House is forced to accept the inevitable with stoical disregard of all of the proprieties and the letter and spirit of the law, thus placing us in the unenviable position of putty-faced stooges...
...sure whether the plan will be adopted or not, so, in order that the promoters will not suffer financial deprivation while fighting tooth & nail for this unselfish plan, the association will publish a newspaper devoted to associational news and will also accept with pleasure all contributions offered by disinterested parties...
Last week in Oklahoma City Rev. Homer Lewis Sheffer told his congregation at First Unitarian Church that he was resigning, to accept a call from the First Unitarian Society of Spokane. Wash. "I assure you," said Pastor Sheffer crisply from his pulpit, "that there have been no pious conversations with the Almighty. Other opportunities have come to me but I have turned them down. This time I cannot...
...Biddle had been in office one day when, at his first press conference, he announced that his initial act would be to accept the Houde challenge. "I am sure," declared the small, freckled-browed chairman in a clipped Harvard accent, "we have enough to go on. . . ." He said he had been to see the Attorney General day before...
...difficult for Wesleyan to place her graduates of the Jewish race in medical schools. It should be apparent that in selecting its freshmen each medical school will feel some degree of responsibility for the graduates of the institution with which it is associated, and it therefore is impelled to accept the promising applicants within its own borders. It is now quite generally admitted that, after that selection has been made, very little room is left for Jewish candidates from other institutions...