Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...push a way through the pack. When the Roosevelt procession reached the ball park, every one of its 45,000 seats was taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which went up as the Nominee was driven slowly around the infield behind an Uncle Sam leading a donkey. Over the grandstands gleamed his floodlighted portrait, 40 ft. high, captioned HE SAVED AMERICA. Exhilarated by this hero's welcome, Franklin...
Declaring that their time is "entirely taken up with the practical task of urging all eligible voters to register," the Republican Landon, Knox Club last night issued a statement in which they said they would accept the challenge of the "so-called University Progressive Committee" for a debate on the election issues after the deadline for registration...
Rear Admiral Osamu Sato, the highest Japanese Naval official in China who is stationed there as naval attaché, divulged to correspondents that the Japanese Government is now pressing the Chinese Government to accept "certain mild general principles" which are actually harsher than Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands of 1915. Under the first "mild" principle, each Chinese Government army campaigning against Chinese Communists in the interminable civil wars and skirmishes must have with it a Japanese army of equal numbers. Under the second "mild" principle, each official of the Chinese Government, including those of its defense forces...
...known laws of Nature he reserves the term supernormal. He considers that at least 999 out of 1,000 of the wonders produced at spiritualistic seances are tricks. What will surprise many a reader is that, with his almost endless experience of frauds, Mr. Price is willing to accept one phenomenon out of 1,000 as genuine. He believes that a psychic investigator who maintains a blind and stubborn skepticism under all circumstances gets nowhere. He states that he has never encountered scientific proof of the survival of the "soul, ego or personality" after death, but that occasionally an extraordinary...
...plans to sue his swindlers until Hannah dissuades him. When he complains that her advice of nonresistance means hoisting the white flag, she cries "White banners!", shows him that moving on to other achievements, turning the other cheek, is more heroic than fighting. Although few readers are likely to accept her counsel unequivocally, it certainly works out well in Paul's case. He writes a life of Spenser that wins him academic acclaim, later invents a better refrigerator that makes his fortune...