Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, let us accept the facts. In view of Truth, if we operated under its system there would be no banking houses, no government, because there would simply be no need for them, and you could always get a loan of ten bucks. But that is not our system. We have made parasitism respectable, banking legal, and capitalism glorious. So let's take what we have, accept our limitations, and not try, at least, for the impossible. Thus, when we criticize the legislation of the Administration, we can not defend the bankers on any idea of Truth for the system...
Yesterday the reporters were able to accept this as merely an inevitable setback in the pursuit of news. After all, Casey's sudden coldness was news in itself. It was just a case of "Why dost thou act so strange, my Edward, and I hope to Heaven that you quit fooling by tomorrow...
...experts worried. Unless prices, immediately push up through that tricky 96 level, a reaction to the 90-92 point may be expected. Repeating our advice of last week, we warn against buying until the reaction has taken place. Swing students can ride through the reaction, but traders should accept the several points profit on recent mendations, notably Harvester and Chrysler, which show some severs points each...
...still be in the sink. They are impolite, screaming for 'service' from overworked telephone operators, the help in the library and the office boys. . . . They depend, even the good ones, too much on their male colleagues to help them over the tough places in their assignments. They accept these courtesies as a matter of course, then, without thanking the man, double cross him as often as possible. . . . They become hoydenish, and worse. . . . They are uniformly devoid of humor. . . . They are masters of dangerous office intrigue. ... To all of these grave charges the newspaper women can plead...
...many an Anglo-Catholic desires an archbishop simply for the dignity and exaltation of the Church. However exalted it might be inwardly, the Church would nevertheless be obliged to accept the outward trappings of an archbishop-call him "Your Grace," give him a primatial cross, add a ten-tasseled heraldic hat and pallium to the insignia of his see, surround him with ten deacons of honor, swing a censer nine times at him in church and officially call him "Most Reverend" instead of "Right Reverend"-the last a practice which Anglo-Catholics long ago adopted...