Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...departure of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd I. Rudolph to accept associate professorships at the University of Chicago next year will leave Harvard with no courses on the history or government of modern India. Earlier this year Rudolph explained that one reason he and his wife are leaving is that, whereas Chicago has the best South Asian program in the country, "Harvard has pretty much thrown in the towel in this field." And it certainly looks that...
...other Dirksen amendments published thus far, and the Saltonstall and Mansfield-Dirksen proposals, seem safe to incorporate into the Bill. However, Sen. Humphrey should accept them only if he can buy cloture votes with their passage. A summer-long of "extended debate" would be disastrous...
...many anthropologists accept this genealogy in its entirety. Some of them argue that Dr. Leakey's newfound fossils are examples of prehuman creatures that happen to look fairly manlike. Others agree that they are extremely interesting but maintain that they are too fragmentary to assign a definite place in the primate family tree. Leakey's Homo habilis may well become established as an ancestral man-if he is not first demoted to an apeman, as was Zinjanthropus...
...Safe Boast. Where the water is shallow, the engineers built some twelve miles of trestle. Over two minor channels they flung bridges. But the Navy would not accept bridges over the major ship channels, on the reasonable military grounds that they might be bombed in case of war and block the channels. To meet this objection the authority came up with a unique solution. They would build tunnels instead. But tunnels have to start from dry land. So the authority built four islands on either side of the major channels...
...stock, then asked the company's managers-who collectively own 2% of the shares-for a voice on the board. In an unusual step, he proposed that the directors nominate five university presidents and that he choose one of them as a Canada Dry director. They refused to accept Hunt's plan...