Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars to give to some student who could not go home for Christmas Day. Recently, one of the men to whom I gave the five dollars returned, and gave me back the five dollars doubled. Now, I wonder if you would feel hurt if I should ask you to accept the ten dollars which he just gave me." To my dying day, I shall always wonder how Dean Briggs knew of my financial condition, for, as far as I can recall, this was the only time he spoke to me during my four years in College...
...much more lenient. If a more lenient agreement is made, how will Great Britain take it? How will Congress take it? Congress has long protested that it would not forgive a cent of foreign indebtedness; but partial debt forgiveness disguised as lower interest or a moratorium Congress may well accept in compromise...
Would the Socialist M. Émile Van der Velde accept the Premiership? Certainly. But neither the Catholics nor the Liberals would support him and, since a coalition government was the only one possible, M. Van der Velde had to renounce the Premiership...
...England. No Tolley. No Wethered. No Holderness. No invading Americans. It was a situation without recent precedent in the history of British Amateur Golf Championships. But there it was, as plain as the nose on a plain caddy's face, and you had to accept it, whether you liked it or not. The indomitable Tolley, who had beaten Hans Samek of Hamburg, ''the first German ever entered in a British golf championship," was eliminated by a man named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain...
...this latter fact (if not some private understanding) that had encouraged the Wisconsin Regents to call Editor Frank. They, and many another, were quite confident that he would accept...