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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will become Poland's first potent President under the new Constitution was a piquant question in Warsaw last week. Marshal Pilsudski, many Poles thought, would forget his distaste for the Presidency and accept it as soon as the office was endowed with power. To do this job, or refuse to do it, Poland's Parliament meets this week. Said Deputy Speaker Dr. Car, championing the draft Constitution: "Poland will really remain a Democracy, not a weak Parliamentary Democracy, but one with strong institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Colonels' Constitution | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...knew it would be a retrogression in myself". There is much more of this kind of explanation, and it is impossible to feel, despite "Point Counter Point", that Mr. Murry is an insincere man. One is only reminded of Harriet Martineau's statement that she was "ready to accept the universe", and of Carlyle's comment on it. Mr. Murry is still unwilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Start of The Rainbow | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...other hand, if the Freshmen are vigorously back of this move for a later breakfast hour, they ought not meekly to accept the opinion of authority on the matter, but they ought to consider for themselves whether the change would in fact involve the dismissal of student waiters. On the face of it, it would seem entirely possible to push forward the breakfast hour, and still retain the waiters. In the first place, a large permanent force of waitresses is on duty in the Union, sharing the work of service with the student waiters. These waitresses could carry on alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAKE ME EARLY, MOTHER | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...depict him, rather than Trotsky, as the No. 2 Bolshevik during Lenin's lifetime. Twenty-three times the twinhood of Lenin & Stalin in doctrine & action is reasserted, despite the well-known "Testament of Lenin" in which the Communist Party was expressly warned by Comrade Lenin not to accept as his successor Comrade Stalin "who is too rough" but to choose "another man who in all respects differs from Stalin, namely one more patient, more logical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Who's Stalin? | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Chandler Rathfon Post '04, former Professor of Greek and of Fine Arts, has been appointed to the William Dorr Boardman Chair of Fine Arts, it was announced yesterday. This appointment makes it necessary for the Corporation to accept the resignation of Professor Post as an Associate of Eliot House. He will be succeeded by Dr. Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Medical School. Professor Post has been a member of the Harvard teaching staff since his graduation from the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Chosen for William Dorr Boardman Chair of Fine Arts | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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