Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government the life blood, which it needs Government, it is said, rests on the consent of the governed. This imposes on all of us--"the governed"--an obligation which under a monarchy we would not have. Unfortunately statistics show that in some cases only about 40 per cent accept the obligation and that consequently one-third of the country rules the other two thirds...
...that the approximate museum value of even so large and well preserved mastodon as Mr. Hirschberg's is not over $15,000, it is believed that the Newark business man has not acted rationally in refusing so large a sum. He has confided to several friends that he will accept $200,000 for the mastodon...
...powers of mediation in the strike. He indicated that if the miners would return to work on a regional agreement basis the Government would undertake to set up a national wage arbitration board. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill appeared still piqued at the mine owners' refusal to accept the plan for settling the coal strike "on principles nationally laid down," which he evolved while Premier Baldwin was on his vacation (TIME, Sept. 20). Said the Chancellor testily, almost petulantly last week: "In my opinion the prolongation of the strike is due entirely to the obstinacy of the mine...
...more worlds to conquer, moralists have delighted to croak of heroes able td master their enemies but not themselves. Such a clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier...
...float tons of explosives over London. Then came Versailles, and the building of zeppelins for Germany was forbidden. Almost, the great Zeppelin factories were ordered destroyed. Almost, the "zeppelin guild" on Lake Constance was scattered. These things did not take place because the Allies, covetous of reparations, agreed to accept payment in zeppelins...