Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less last week under the new betting tax law, drafted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill (TIME, May 3). On the first day that the tickets were issued "bookies" at Tattersall's sold them as souvenirs. On the third day Tattersall's bookies struck, refused to accept bets, and since Tattersall's odds are the basis of odds throughout Britain, brought British betting to a temporary standstill...
...President Coolidge has been invited to California. He ought to accept and he should visit this Mojave desert. On a hillside, below a big rock, he would see a complicated, ingenious bulwark of small branches, each one carrying thorns, protecting the hole of the desert pack...
...Kennedy, Chairman of the Princeton Athletic Board, to W. J. Bingham, Director of Athletics at Harvard, the Princeton attitude is set forth clearly, and the reasons for this drastic step are fully outlined. The last paragraph of the letter declares: "I may add also that Princeton will never accept, so far as she is concerned, the implications of the provisions of the policy adopted by the Harvard Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports, as set forth in the resolutions of October 14, which I received this morning...
...also add that Princeton will never accept so face as she is conferral the implications of the proves has of the policy adopted by the Harvard Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports as set forth in the resolutions of October 14, which I Received this morning...
...contributed no outstanding changes in the games such as the "Deland flying wedge" or as the Notre Dame rushing and passing game, but it has been extraordinarily proficient at developing ideas started by other teams but not carried out by them to perfection. Princeton has been the team to accept other ideas, perfect them, and put them on without a flew. Such things as the great "Purtie Back" formation the "Hudole" and any number of other defenses and offensive plays which have made Princeton's teams such respected opponents have been nothing but adapted ideas of some opponent or contemporary...