Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Beckwith has since announced his inability to accept the position in Athens, and as yet the managing committee has chosen no successor...
Williams has challenged Amherst to play in New York Saturday, but Amherst will probably not accept. The Thanksgiving game has been declared...
...France and Germany and Spain as well as in Italy the mediaeval impulses had worn themselves out and these countries were not slow to accept the new movement and then the Renaissance became European...
...form of saying that if people are to think in this confused way. unconsciously borrowing from a great speculator like Hegel, and then depriving the borrowed conception of the peculiar subtlety of statement that made it useful in its place - and if we readers are for our part to accept such scholasticism as is found in Dr. Abbot's concluding sections as at all resembling philosophy - then it were far better for the world that no reflective thinking whatever should be done. If we can't improve on what God has already put into the mouths of the babes...
...possible for us to accept this call. Two roads are open to us; the one leads to a shaming and crucifixion of Christ, and to the casting out of our lives all purity, truth and nobility. The other to a life of peaceful happiness with Jesus Christ...