Word: accept
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...keeping a closer eye than ever before on entertainment and travel deductions, and the Administration is seeking legislative repeal of the so-called "George M. Cohan rule." Deciding a tax suit filed against the free-spending Broadway actor, a court ruled in 1930 that the IRS had to accept his word that some entertainment deductions were part of his business, even though he could produce no receipts or records. The ruling has hampered the IRS ever since in its efforts to corner businessmen with heavy expense-account deductions...
...recent RGA rules Committee Statement points out two fundamental facts this community must realize. The first is that all Radcliffe students are already responsible for themselves because, as the committee says, "no one else can accept the consequences of their behavior." Given the permissiveness of the existing rules and the practical impossibility of ever enforcing water-tight restrictions in this community, the individual is now responsible for herself whether she is mature enough for it or not. Discussion becomes confused when people question the desirability of the state of affairs...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905). In setting up free pensions for professors in the U.S. and Canada, the foundation had to define a "college," which in turn meant defining "high school." Result: the "Carnegie Unit"-the 120 hours per year that U.S. high schools now accept as standard for each subject. The foundation went on to organize the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (120,000 current policy-holders), a pioneer among U.S. annuity plans. Most important, the foundation financed the famed 1910 Flexner report criticizing medical schools in the U.S. and Canada, which in turn unlocked...
...immigrant Italian bridge builder, Frondizi was a shy, unexceptional youth, who showed his first flash of spirit in 1930 against then Dictator Jose Uri-buru. Frondizi completed a six-year law course in three, with honors. But on graduation day he stood on the platform, and refused to accept his honors certificate "from a government put in power and maintained by military force...
...Devil. Brown is an evangelist of the social gospel only. For Oscar, the Devil is Mr. Kicks and God is any one's honest try - both of them amiable enough figures in his life. But the accept ance of his music, the success of his record albums, the outlook for kicks in the future - all are too bright to take seriously. "The other day a burlesque girl came by my room and asked if she could sing Mr. Kicks in her act," Oscar says...