Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reaction. President Coolidge's speech took the way of political commonsense. He knew that the Senate, after its World Court broil last January, would have no more to do with international brotherhood, unless its five reservations were accepted verbatim. In September the Geneva Conference added counter-reservations (TIME, Sept. 13) and some friendly World Court Senators became hostile. So, now the situation has come to an impasse: Europe is little inclined to accept the Senate reservations; the Senate and the Administration will not listen to counter-reservations...
...Committee pursued its negotiations with Premier Baldwin and a settlement appeared looming on the basis of district agreements between the miners, owners, subject to revision in individual cases by a national coal tribunal under Government auspices. There was every prospect that the miners will have to accept longer hours and lower wages than was their lot before they struck...
...first Maximilian refused, but four years later under pressure from Napoleon III and after General Forey had captured the City of Mexico, he decided to accept the crown, contrary, however, to his brother's advice...
Although it is unfortunate that the younger generation of authors cannot write enough worthwhile plays to satisfy the demand, it is a compliment to the theatregoing populace that it refuses to accept drivel and receives instead the thought-stimulating and inspiring lines of Ibsen. In this case, turning to the past is a sure sign of progress...
...appreciation of wine is an "exotic note" and an escape "from the starker Puritanism of his training," when it is remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that Longfellow is "the first figure in American letters to discover Europe as a rich mine." What of Irving, and was even Irving the first? Is it wise to say that the poet projected a drama on Cotton Mather but nothing came of it (pp. 226-227), when...