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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drinking is a matter of personal conduct and matters of personal conduct at Harvard are determined by each student. Yet educated men who possess complete freedom in their actions must accept accompanying responsibilities. When they exercise their right to drink freely, they are not entitled to discomfort others, to endanger lives unnecessarily, or to create public disturbance which discredits the College. Should they disregard these obligations, they must take the consequences of their failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRINKING AND THE COLLEGE | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

...College should launch its attack at failures to accept responsibility. When any undergraduate makes a spectacle of himself at public college functions, creates unnecessary disturbances, or endangers lives, he should be subjected to immediate disciplinary action. While basic freedom would be preserved, a man would learn that he must control himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRINKING AND THE COLLEGE | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

...walking delegate then said that for the crew to accept the owner's bonus would be "too mercenary" and the ship did not sail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED STATES: Peaceful Embroiling | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...SEChairman James McCauley Landis has made registration easy, insisting that filing will not impair the powermen's right to challenge the Act's constitutionality at a later date. Last week in a final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would be null & void should the courts eventually find that the powermen had really surrendered their constitutional rights by filing. Pointedly hinting at the serious liabilities involved if the Act were upheld, SEC wheedled: "No possible ground in reason remains for any company to fail to file a simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Resignation to Revolt | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...will receive the same interest as the banks (currently 4%), and while the bank loans are still on a demand basis, the RFC loans become payable if New York Central ever defaults. Furthermore, Mr. Vanderbilt tried to patch up his spat with the RFChairman by writing: "Please accept our sincere thanks for the co-operative spirit which you have evinced in reaching a final and permanent settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Central Settlement | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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