Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connecticut system of representation. I have believed where a citizen is asked to do a duty he should do it. You, as representatives of the people, have asked me to do another job, to perform a duty. You have the right to ask this of me; and I accept...
...litterateurs as he controlled everybody else, he offered his protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King, and the Académie Française came into being...
...scientists are pagan and heathen minds trying to eliminate God from the Universe. Unless we are going to accept the teachings of the Bible we must believe that nothing made something out of nothing. And I for one cannot believe...
...disappointment in the University over the resignation of Professor Baker was decidedly aggravated on receipt of the information that he is leaving to accept the directorship of a new department of Dramatic Art to be founded at Yale. E. S. Harkness. Yale '97, has given $1,000,000 to the Fine Arts Department of Yale University to finance the new undertaking which will include the erection of a theatre to be used solely for the production of plays written under the auspices of the department...
...Yale fund will provide a theatre and a distinguhed staff of dramatists and dramatic coaches who will give graduate and undergraduate instruction in the writing of plays their effective staging and their actual presentation Professor Baker leaves Harvard to accept the leadership of this staff...