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Word: accept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attending Cabinet meetings. Within two months of my father's inauguration, my mother suffered a brain hemorrhage which rendered her unconscious for four or five days and from the effects of which she never fully recovered. For the next two years she had, most unwillingly, to accept the role of invalid. During the whole period of my father's presidency I doubt whether she visited the executive offices half a dozen times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Tokyo University averages nine job offers for each graduate, who is thus assured a place on the escalator that produces the nation's leaders; Premier Hayato Ikeda himself was a two-time ronin. Yet Tokyo now turns down four applicants for each one it accepts, and some ronin have been trying to get into that school for as much as eight years. Michio Nagai, a former visiting professor at Columbia who teaches sociology at Tokyo's Institute of Technology, proposes a law limiting the percentage of graduates that a company can hire from topflight Tokyo or Kyoto universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Abroad: The Wave People | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...right in the Baltimore dugout: Oriole Coach Hank Bauer. Said Bauer, "I don't know whether I'm the first, second, third or 20th choice for this job, but I'll say one thing-if it was offered to anyone else, they were crazy not to accept. It makes me feel good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...about $1 in Europe and 73? in Japan. Expenses have swollen so fast that a ship such as the United States, built in 1949 for $70 million, would run to some $130 million today. Some U.S. shipyards, including Maine's venerable Bath Iron Works, accept orders at a loss just to keep busy. One result: stocks of U.S. shipbuilders have dropped 40% since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: At Low Tide | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Holding Down Advertising. Science and industry exhibits are necessarily a collaboration between museums and private industry. Some smaller museums sometimes have to accept a big dose of advertising along with exhibits of doubtful scholarship. By contrast, Chicago's booming Museum of Science and Industry can invite companies to supply elaborate displays that meet its main educational requirement, which is to trace the sequence of an industrial development from the basic scientific discovery to its future applications. Even though they get credit only in modest plaques, firms are eager to respond; the museum's 14 acres of floor space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: A Touch of Aristotle, A Dash of Barnum | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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