Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 50 years ago a young woman from Wisconsin came to Washington to study law. Law schools at that time refused to accept women students. Only the Law School at Howard University would admit her, and Howard University is a Negro institution. Undaunted, the woman from Wisconsin entered Howard, studied with Negroes, received her diploma. In 1881 she was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Last week in Washington many an organization assembled to honor Emma M. Gillett's memory. Born in a log cabin in Wisconsin in 1852 she was, at the time of her death (January...
...editors wish to get the undergraduate point of view they must be prepared to accept much that is in every way untrue and false as compared with a more mature understanding. The worst and most hectic tales of college life are written either by college students or by young graduates. And the more intelligent samples come from men who have been away from college long enough to discuss it calmly, and who have lost what may well be termed a sophomoric attitude toward life and academic environment...
...close personal friend of M. Poincaré, pontifical Editor Jacques Bainville of La Liberté. The Premier said: "The reserves of foreign currency which have been accumulated by the Treasury place us in a position to meet our foreign liabilities so that we will not have to accept blindly for a long period, engagements which we would not be sure ; about being able to keep, or to submit to any constraint from abroad...
...Confirming our conversation of this morning, I have the honor to inform you that I am authorized to say that the President of the United States intends to accept the request of the [Diaz] Nicaraguan Government to supervise the elections of 1928; that retention of President Diaz during the remainder of his term is regarded as necessary for the proper and successful conduct of such elections, and that the forces of the United States will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down, including the Government's and to disarm forcibly those...
Philadelphia, city of feuds in art and music, gave official approval last week to the late Sculptor August Rodin. Mayor Kendrick, after conferring with his subordinates, announced that, yes, the city would accept from Jules E. Mastbaum, theatre owner and philanthropist, a million-dollar collection of Sculptor Rodin's works and a $400,000 museum to keep them in. Architects Paul Cret and Jacques Greber having completed their plans, there was nothing further to hinder the museum's erection at Parkway & 23rd...