Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These young men show a surprising grasp of the fundamental problems of education, as well as the particular problems of Harvard. Undoubtedly Oxford undergraduates could, produce an equally constructive criticism of their university, but they never have and would not be listened to if they did. Undergraduates over there accept the "system" without question, although not their teachers' pet ideas...
...Kellogg note would appear to make it necessary for the 48 Court-adherent nations to seek individually for the answers to these questions; to accept or reject individually the U. S. reservations...
Later, hearing complaints that Publisher Hearst's use of, and reciprocal contributions to, the A. P. current were not what they might be at Rochester, the A. P. directors unanimously agreed that the best interests of the A. P. would be served by inviting Publisher Gannett to accept a franchise. They sent letters to all the A. P. members urging them to vote favorably when this motion came up. Alarmed, Publisher Hearst commanded his chief scribe, Arthur Brisbane, to circularize all the A. P. members and ask them if they were going to permit their votes to be thus "forced...
...differ in their creeds, their aspirations and the cut of their coats; it is hard to find two people who accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior?the unwritten doctrine of good taste?that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended equally believers and skeptics, as hundreds of editorials in last week...
...sepia shadows of moonlight and, far and far away, star-spangled indigo of the lower sky. There, in a barbaric dawn, John Masterson, a normal middle-aged Englishman, ponders the news that he is heir to a fortune. Only a prayer-got sense of duty persuades him to accept it. Returning to London, he finds his fortune times and times bigger than expected. In fact it is millions and millions of pounds...