Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last analysis settle such an important matter of policy has brought not only the commuters but the Committee itself, the Brooks House Cabinet, and its Advisory Council headed by Dean Sperry, into a state resembling rebellion. If Jim Farley can't come to Cambridge, University Hall has got to accept the responsibility squarely and adopt a reasoned course of action...
...crisis, the dilemma: Whether to accept or to reject the Anglo-French declaration made in London (TIME, Feb. 11) by His Majesty's Government with new, dynamic French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his astute, peasant-born Foreign Minister, Pierre Laval...
...Black Hole of Calcutta cost $30,000, time, 15 seconds, and I accept that as true. My dear husband says I am too credulous to take in such "bosh." Who is right...
...into the belief that boxing was a pastime fit for gentlemen and sportsmen. By 1922 Johnny La Rowe was assistant to the boxing coach. Before he became head coach in 1925, he also helped defray the expenses of the team. Last year, somewhat unwillingly, Coach La Rowe consented to accept a salary commensurate with his services. Now 67, confined to crutches, he has begun to learn the patois of his job. Last week he urged his team...
When an airplane lands at Catalina Island with a honeymoon couple, a movie director, and Miss Oliver among its occupants, one of the other passengers is found to have died on route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection...