Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal." Questioned about a third party, the political priest explained that canon law forbade his actually starting one. But he readily admitted that a candidate was in view, that a platform had been submitted to him "through a third person," that the candidate had only to accept the platform and announce his candidacy to gain the Coughlin endorsement. The announcement, said he, might come any day from New York, Boston or Washington...
...Lloyd George, the aim of sagacious Sir Samuel was to make a vast number of decisions as wisely as possible and get them fastened irrevocably upon India, rather than to mull over the Indian Question idealistically ad infinitum. Today the great fact in India is that the Indians have accepted their new Constitution as poets accept the structure of a sonnet. It is utterly a thing imposed by London, but within its frame a talented people of wanglers and weaselers can perform all sorts of feats of freedom: within the Empire, and not with "dominion status" as St. Gandhi...
President Conant will then award the honorary degree and the degrees to those graduating from the University. The senior class marshals who will accept the degrees on behalf of the class will be Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, Richard Maguire '36 and Robert C. Hall...
...second in com mand in the Group's world army. It was in his Oxford rooms that the movement received its first impetus in 1921. Subsequently a footballer at Colgate University, Grouper Hamilton married, begat two children, continued to live on a basis of faith without ever accepting a salaried position. Said he last week: "It takes God's guidance to make a Scot accept a situation like that...
...charge the old rates along most of its suburban mileage, but only the new rates after it entered city limits. The L. I. R. R. then avoided obeying the injunction by planning an appeal. This time the passenger outburst was stupendous. Sullenly standing pat, the railroad refused to accept any fares below its standard 3? rate. If a passenger refused to pay that, the agent took his name and address, let him ride for nothing, declared: "Our legal department will get in touch with you." Doubting that the company would ever get around to suing each passenger individually, delighted commuters...