Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leary '05, end coach of the University football squad last season, definitely eliminated his name as a possible choice for head coach to succeed R. T. Fisher '12, when he announced yesterday to the CRIMSON, that he would be unable to accept the position if offered to him by the Football Advisory Committee...
...hoped that I might be able to accept your invitation to go to Cambridge for a meeting of the Harvard Union. I find, however, that it will be impossible . . . Owing to important military legislation pending in the Senate and House of Representatives. I have decided that I will not accept invitations that would take me away from Washington while Congress is in session...
...these presents that we, by the grace of God, authorize the bearer to receive for us the conditions which France and Spain offered in July last, which may serve as a base of negotiations for peace, so that we may take them into our consideration, examine them and accept or refuse them...
Throughout the land headlines blared RABBI WISE SAYS JEWS SHOULD ACCEPT JESUS. As the implication of those words sank in, Jews became excited and commenced to flay famed Manhattan Rabbi Stephen S. Wise right and left. The Agudath Harabonim* issued an edict against him. Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, professor of the Talmud at the New York Jewish Theological Seminary, declared: "Rabbi Wise does not represent the beliefs of a majority of Jews...
...length someone troubled to discover that Rabbi Wise had actually only said that modern Jewry must accept Jesus as a great Jewish teacher and indorse His ethical code. Later the Rabbi explained, that he had used the words "accept Jesus" in the sense of "accept Jesus as a man and a Jew." He said: "There is no question of embracing Christianity save by Christians...