Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Bowditch's resignation last fall concludes his tenure, which began in September 1937 as successor to Elting E. Morison '32. Dean Bowditch resigned to accept the offer of the position of Headmaster at The Oak Park School of Oak Park, Indians...
...After the solution of this question" he said on the Saar issue in the Reichstag on Jan. 30, 1934, "The German Government is willing and determined to accept in its innermost soul as well as external formulation the Pact of Locarno...
Sweden's Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...schools totaled less than 5,200 last year, there are "approximately 900 positions that cannot be filled from our own medical schools. . . . Currently a relative shortage of interns exists." This shortage, said the Journal, may be remedied if hospitals induce interns to remain two years instead of one, and accept well-trained graduates of foreign medical schools who pass tests given by the National Board of Medical Examiners...
Prodding Louis XVI to accept a liberal constitution he argued that the French, having no such schooling in democracy as pre-Revolution Americans, would first swing to bloody revolutionary extremes, then fall into the hands of unscrupulous dictators. French rulers, said Morris, had so corrupted the French masses that they "have no Religion but their Priests, no Law but their Superiors, no Moral but their Interest." Gouverneur Morris appears, in short, as a well-meaning liberal, preaching moderation to people who, on the Right and Left alike, wanted none of it. As for his scheme to smuggle Louis...