Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfectly satisfied with it and consider it the best thing of its kind published. What I cannot use or accept iI let alone...
...backers are the trustees of the American Fund for Public Service-that lump of money which was made into a trust fund by earnest young Charles Garland of Boston, who inherited $1,000,000 and refused to accept it because he was that rarest of idealists, a socialist who applied his precepts to himself. The fund has been nearly doubled by careful investments. Its custodians stated that they were ready to devote $17,000 a year "or more" to this publication, with the condition that the founders raise an additional $10,000 a year. And what will this magazine...
...confession made before the House of Bishops at New Orleans this fall defends his booklet as follows:--"It was not intended as a retraction of any representation of the booklet, but as an explanation of how I can hold to my new faith without giving up the old-accept the revelation of science, yet not reject that of tradition, and be at once a Modernist, Fundamentalist, Christian, Jew, Mohammedar, Buddhist and what...
...could be nothing more significant than the stand taken by the representatives of the undergraduates of half a dozen colleges in conference at Middletown, Conn. In so far as this group works to purge the sport of its hippodroming, ballyhooing features, we are in full sympathy, though we cannot accept all their suggestions for attaining their objective...
...Chancellor of Germany has authorized me to say on the authority of the German Government that there was never any foundation for the corpse factory story. On behalf of the British Government I accept this denial and trust this false report will not be again revived...