Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technical knowledge and the inspiration necessary for success. In the past it has always been possible to find a man who was a Harvard graduate and at the same time combined pure ability as a football coach with the congeniality and other personal characteristics necessary for the squad to accept him as friend as well as instructor. It is the last two of these conditions rather than the first one which should be considered in the choice of a new coach...
After a week of suspense, the Oxford Union Society has replied through the National Broadcasting Company to the Debating Council on the subject of the radio debate to be held on December 8. Oxford cannot accept the proposal for a split-team debate on news censorship, but wants to uphold the affirmative of the resolution for an Angle-American alliance, first proposed by Harvard, which wanted the affirmative as well...
...might even ask you to put this prediction of ours down in your own black and white for later verification. It's the old story of Elisha and Elljah, that is being re-enacted down in the nation's capital. Having sowed a few radical oats, Roosevelt will now accept the mantle of conservation...
...newspapers are smart they will not fight radio but accept the inexorable law of survival of the fittest and find ways of proving their output - a popular defensive business move of which newspaper publishers are innocent...
...elder La Follette again cast off his Republican harness to accept a third-party nomination from the Conference for Progressive Political Action. As a personal hero and with the backing of the Socialist Party, he rolled up the amazing total of nearly 5,000,000 popular votes in the election, but was ready to call himself a Republican again when it was over...