Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vote to pay the President $800 a year, and the Secretary $10 for every Directors' meeting attended. Any scheme which seeks to secure to the consumer the middleman's profit should pay its way; it should not be based on charity. To accept in the form of dividends upon one's purchases, the result of the unpaid labor of President, Secretary, or Director, is to accept charity. H.R. MEYER
...meeting of the Corporation held yesterday, it was voted to accept the plans which have been drawn for an addition to Boylston Hall. The addition, which is intended for temporary use in the next few years, will be eighty-three feet long and thirty-three feet wide and will be built on the south side of the present building. It will contain one large room to be used as a laboratory for elementary classes in chemistry, and also a basement for general use. The construction will be supported by brick piers. Cement plaster will be used on the outside...
...before it could become a law. Before this act shall be in force, however, it is provided that the Board of Overseers and the Corporation of the University, at separate meetings held for that purpose, shall by vote assent to the same. The governing boards will probably vote their acceptance of this act at meetings to be held in the near future. It must be understood, however, that the amendment included by the Senate provides that if accepted, the bill shall not become operative for three years; so that if the two governing boards of the University accept this...
Several men have been nominated for both an office and a committee. All who desire to do so may vote for these men for both positions; and if elected to both, the nominee will accept the office and resign from the committee...
...Tammany rule. The case of the negative rested on two main points--that Mayor Low is justified in not enforcing the excise law, first, because the conditions make it impossible; and, secondly, that because strict enforcement would have a demoralizing effect it was necessary, reasonable and just to accept a compromise...