Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paper Victory. As Walter White sat peering curiously down at the Senate from his gallery seat, he had already won a paper victory. He claimed, and neutral observers were disposed to accept his estimate, 73 votes for his bill in the turbulent chamber below. But these were promissory notes, useless until a final roll call forced collection. And just as there were Representatives willing to bring the Administration's Wages-&-Hours Bill out of an obstructive rules committee but unwilling to vote for it when they got the chance, so too there were Senators last week willing to vote...
Some Seniors are able to step directly into a family business or to accept employment under the auspices of friends or relatives when they graduate. Lest these men fool that because they are fortunate enough to have jobs waiting for them they are unwelcome at the Alumni Placement Office, we hasten to assure them that the facilities of this Office are as much at their command as for other students...
...this group of students there will, of course, be those who have so wisely resolved their problem of employment that it would be presumptuous to solicit their further attention. But there are those, on the other hand, who for one reason or another accept such proffered employment hastily and with little or no effort to appraise its nature or its consequences...
When your roommate's father asks you to come to work in his business and you accept, are you making a rational choice of a career or is someone deciding this important question for you? A frequent human fallacy is to attribute to others the same reactions we ourselves experience to any given set of circumstances...
Should he accept employment in a training course of this sort, concealing his actual purpose of remaining only for a short time, he would not only render an injustice to his employer but might open a breach between the Placement Office and the employer which would jeopardize the opportunities for other students...