Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked to sit down outside of the League and confer with the gentlemen inside of the League with reference to whether we will accept the jurisdiction of the Court created, set, managed and controlled by the gentlemen inside of the League...
...perhaps going to be removed from office because it was claimed that he had violated the law. On the other hand were various positions dangling in his face with no other purpose, I believe, than to influence his official action on the Tariff Commission. He finally did accept an appointment. It has always been a question in my mind whether he did not yield to temptation...
...granting her a modest pension. Mme. Lambrino's lawyer, Maitre Albert Salmon, has however advanced the theory that this annulment was "illegal" and known to be such by all concerned, including the Roumanian Government. Said Mme. Lambrino tearfully last week: "Only for dynastic reasons did I accept the second marriage contracted by my husband with Princess Helen of Greece...
...anybody ever rejects an occasional god-send from the publishers. In this case, the blurb writer has served up an excellent description of the story which errs only slightly on the side of hyperbole. discount the implication of the first of the following sentences and you may accept every statement at its face value...
...uprising is an account in biblical language of the disorders in the College in September, 1776, consequent on the stewards' persisting in serving bad butter in the commons. A contributory cause of the disorders is also to be found in the fact that the faculty had lately refused to accept certain customary and time-honored, but very elastic, excuses for absence from college exercises. The "Book of Harvard" and "Arguments for the Defence" gives the students' side of the question while the faculty prepared a long list of "Representations" to explain their side of the matter to the Overseers...