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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personally, I do not believe Madison's comfortably situated sports editors could be persuaded by any amount of eloquence to accept jobs in Wisconsin's athletic department, where even professorial rank is no guarantee of security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy to accept from the fighting Fujiwara Clan a phenomenally long number of Fujiwara women as Empresses. Today a eugenist would probably say that the Son of Heaven is in flesh & blood more of a Fujiwara than anything else. Against the great and almost divine Prince Konoye it was unthinkable to most Japanese last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Genro, Godling & Ginger | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...correct one. Only a high tribunal can settle issues involving a direct difference of opinion as to the interpretation of existing laws. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is the supreme court of boxing, and must therefore be consulted in this matter. Harvard and Yale must agree to accept the opinion of this body and allow it to stand as a precedent for future boxing decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RULE SEVEN | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

...serious objection to the ten dollar athletic levy proposed by the Crimson is raised elsewhere on this page. "Either the University must accept as inevitable the domination of an athletic hierarchy," says Mr. Jones, "or reassert its long dormant spirit of open minded toleration". This statement of the case is, it is safe to say, at least an exaggeration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS FOR ALL | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...athletic portion of the community? Not only must we witness the coarsening of the intellectual fibres of "college" men by the iron heel of crude commercialism, but you have the unmitigated presumption to suggest that we contribute to it. There is no middle road. Either the university must accept as inevitable the domination of an athletic hierarchy, or reassert its long dormant spirit of open minded tolerance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

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