Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raising farm prices by buying up the surpluses of the major crops. In the Senate this second bill was proposed as an amendment to the first, and the whole program of farm relief of any kind was threatened, since neither Senate, House nor President was deemed willing to accept the present bill...
...folly Lloyd George committed when he brought these Russian intriguers into our midst! . . . "I have to add this warning. Persons who lend money to Russia, as they are entitled to do, must be alive to the risks they run and understand that, in no circumstances, will the British Treasury accept any responsibility if they are defrauded...
...place in the field of studies. And, shocking as his argument seems, one must concede that there is something in it. To begin with, the honor system as commonly practiced is less an honor system than a self-winding spy system. The student promises not only to accept no aid himself but also to report any student whom he sees taking aid. This, as even the dullest student knows, is a far cry from honor. In the second place, it is a system whose benefits all flow in the direction. The faculty is usually better for it than the students...
...Council voted to accept a recommendation by one of its fiscal subcommittees that the three-year administration of Austrian state finance by Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, as League of Nations General Commissioner for Austria, be terminated on June...
...proclaims to the world his willingness to rest the salvation of his soul upon the ethics of big business. And seldom has there been a more revealing confession of faith than this naive acknowledgement that whatever is right, and that the President of the United States is content to accept as his own faith and the faith of the American people the spiritual implications of modern industrialism...