Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday, 26 October, the Board decided tentatively to accept as evidence in the Mallinckrodt cases only eyewitness testimony of officers of the University. In retrospect, it is clear that this decision, subsequently altered, resulted in considerable confusion...
...then argued that the Board should accept my judgment that other men were in fact present in the corridor. I told the Board that my judgment was based on 1) my personal knowledge of the deep concern over the war which many of these men felt and the consequent probability that they had in fact participated in the obstruction; 2) the strong impression to the same effect which the Master and I had received from the meeting Monday morning; and 3) the petition signed by those men which stated their belief that they shared responsibility for obstructing Mr. Leavitt...
...audience at Thursday night's opening seemed a little uncomfortable in Odets's presence, but quickly came to accept him, probably as a spiritual ancestor to such modern plays as Dear Me, the Sky is Falling and I Can Get it for You Wholesale. Lines like "I got a yen for her, and I don't mean a Chinese coin" were laughed at agreeably, and the play's genuinely tense moments drew genuinely tense reactions. All in all, it was hard to believe Awake and Sing could have meant something more, or even something different, to its '30's audiences...
Kerr said the Ad Board found the petition "inadequate in and of itself. After considerable discussion, however, the Board did accept my judgment as establishing a reasonable certainty of presence, and voted to place the men on probation...
Kerr said it was not clear until Tuesday that statements of self-incrimination would be accepted. He indicated that the Board would continue to accept "credible" letters of self-incrimination, which would be considered at the next board meeting