Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bowie said "that religion can only be real when each man espouses that which he himself believes." Let us go a step farther and say that the same is true in mathematics, so that if a man cannot accept the fact that 2 x 2 equals 4 because "he himself does not believe it," then let him choose any number he may please...
Rajk told the court in a clear voice that he would not ask for clemency. "I accept the sentence because it is just. But I disagree with the defense motion for appeal...
After the crash, Albert Guay, a jeweler and onetime munitions worker, had urged investigators to "get to the bottom of this." He bought a great cross of flowers to be placed on Rita's coffin. To a priest he said: "If God wanted it, I accept...
...assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire to conform to tradition...
...Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...