Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Untold heartache, disappointment and suffering would be avoided if all editors . . . would accept your article on phenosulfazole [TIME, Sept. 6] as a model of medical reporting, as applied to new and experimental drugs and surgical procedures...
...foreign trade was done by trusts. Today the government is doing it, with the difference that then it was done for the trusts' sole benefit, and today the government is doing it for the benefit of the people. This year IAPI made $418 million [a total hard to accept in the light of lAPI's declining sales]. Before the trusts made it. They are not content, but the people should...
Grandma Moses (TIME, Sept. 6), chipper as ever on her 88th birthday, cut a cake decorated with scenes inspired by Grandma Moses' paintings. With a helping hand from Admirer Norman Rockwell, who also paints, after his fashion, she struck a pose that even her most critical dealer would accept as an authentic American primitive...
...once the letters column of the New Statesman bristled with arguments pro & con Freddie Ayer. Did his philosophy really lead to fascism? One professional philosophizer who sided with "Oxonian" was bush-bearded C.E.M. Joad. To accept Ayer's assumptions, wrote Joad, would be to agree "that there is no meaning in the universe . . . that it means nothing to say that Beethoven is a greater musician than Mr. Sinatra . . . that all talk about God ... is twaddle...
...highly specialized animal ... is practically in equilibrium with all phases of his environment... Is something similar, perhaps, happening to the scientist? Is the specialist, in the confines of his narrow discipline, failing to accept the challenge of unfamiliar territory, to risk the uncertainties and the tensions of coupling and interconnecting the many aspects of science? ... If this is so, he is no longer a true scientist...