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Word: acceptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Accept the fact that the US. will assume no obligations under the Treaty of Versailles except by Act of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Diminuendo | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...becomiing a common practice, has referred the technical question to a small committee presided over by Count Teleki, an ex-Prime Minister of Hungary, which will make an inquiry on the spot and report to the Council. I am glad to say that both countries have already agreed to accept the decision of the Council, whatever it may be-a good example of the growing power of the new spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: In Nomine Pacis | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...Treasury Department requested Congress for $275,000 to be used to destroy an outbreak of plague among rats reported at New Orleans. Trapping, watching, fumigating are to be resorted to to suppress the disease among the vermin and prevent any chance of its spreading to humans. Presumably Congress will accept the Treasury Department bid, although it is somewhat higher than the Pied Piper's flat rate of 1,000 guilders* an extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 1,000 Guilders | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...accept the sentence fully and entirely, though I am innocent of some of the murders attributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Goose-Flesh | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...applying for their bonuses. To be sure, claims may be filed until Jan. 1, 1928, but the veterans might be expected to demand at once whatever is coming to them. Of the 4,051,606 Army veterans, about 1,785,000 have applied. Only 64 have announced they will accept no bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOLDIER BONUS: Tardy | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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