Word: accept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was another problem that might have even more bearing on international relationships: to anyone willing to accept obvious facts, the U.S.S.R. has far outstripped the U.S. in the reach for space. President Eisenhower has seemed remarkably unconcerned about the U.S. lag, but the fact remains that, as a man who has spent his entire career in meeting heavy responsibilities, it is his plain and pressing responsibility to see to it that the U.S. gets humping in its space programs...
Latham returned to Harvard as an instructor and tutor, received his doctorate, and left in 1940 to accept a teaching position at the University of Minnesota...
...present labor force is totally inadequate. To temporarily plug the secretarial gap, the Personnel Office has offered to send otherwise competent applicants to typing school and to give dictaphones to any professors who will accept them in place of secretaries. "No one seems very eager to take us up on the dictaphones though," Wessel said. "In the long run, I guess we'll just have to hope for an increase in the birth rate...
Nobel Peace Prizewinning Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer, 84, went to Copenhagen to accept a Sonning Prize (the Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...
...falls far short of attaining the Jewish ideals of monotheism and cleanliness." Adds World Union Director Israel Ben Zeev: "The Japanese are ripe for conversion. Eventually, they will become either Christians or Jews. But as long as Hiroshima is still fresh in their minds, they are not likely to accept Christianity...