Word: accept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the General Education Committee can only reject or accept whatever courses individual professors choose to offer. It does not have the authority to dictate individual courses, and since no one seems interested in teaching courses which the Bruner committee originally envisioned, they will probably never be given...
...real question is whether his idea is intrinsically limited to biology, and, more specfically, to biology taught by George Wald. It is no secret that the General Education Committee would be reluctant to accept the course Wald has put forth if Wald himself were not teaching...
...famed Swiss-born architect undoubtedly was influenced in his decision to accept the invitation by the special purpose and nature of the building, as well as by the presence here of Dean Sert, without whose efforts Le Corbusier's acceptance is inconceivable. The Center, as Le Corbusier remarked, "stands for everything I have worked for in my life...
Most newsmen who knew them were willing to accept the statements of Bob Considine, Hal Boyle and Stan Delaplane that there had been no news-space quid pro quo with Hess. But by the very fact of becoming paid public personalities and hired performers, they had asked for embarrassment that could have been avoided had they stuck to their real jobs, at which all do exceedingly well...
...self-effacing, $20.44-a-week London hotel dishwasher, a powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...