Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dear to every American. My record as Governor and as President proves my devotion to those liberties. You who know me can have no fear that I would tolerate the destruction by any branch of Government of any part of our heritage of freedom. . . . You who know me will accept my solemn assurance that in a world in which democracy is under attack, I seek to make American democracy succeed...
Much more lengthy and fiery was the discussion than that of two days before when the legislature voted, 111-102, to accept the Committee's report which advocated that the bill be erased from the ledgers. During the recording of the ballots, yeas and nays ran neck and neck, and the last fifteen members voiced the deciding vote...
...other El Paso acquaintances of his, many of whom he knew only casually. Some years ago it was my privilege to have a rather lengthy conversation with Jake concerning the predicament that a faulty gland had placed him in; he has a philosophy that enables him to accept his lot in a manner that should make a lot of us "normal" folk envious of him. ROBERT M. JACKSOX Clerk Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds United States Senate Washington...
...distinction between major and minor sports is accepted as a valid premise, there is every reason to accept a new applicant for major ranking. Most significant of the criteria upon which the Athletic Committee basis its conclusions concerning a "major sport" is the amount of interest it arouses in the College. AT present there is only one winter major sport--hockey--and its popularity is unquestioned in New England. During the past two years however, there has been a phenomenal growth in another sport--basketball. Tonight over two thousand people jam the stands to watch the game with Yale, tonight...
...Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could not, she really could not accept a suitor who had been sent. This was in her father's frowning Glamis Castle where, according to Shakespeare, Macbeth murdered Duncan, and the English press likes to repeat its tale of the commoner daughter of a Scottish earl who was unyielding and unimpressed until her King...