Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressed regret that the new appointment would necessitate his leaving Harvard, where he has taught since 1917; but he feels that it is his duty to accept the larger position offered him by the government. He will not leave for Washington until some time next week, and under to circumstances until a competent man has been found to fill his post as commissioner of correction...
Ever since it was forced to accept the chandeliers, which a sister House had refused, Eliot House has harbored a certain sense of inferiority. Witness the incident of a notice posted day before yesterday, announcing a lecture by Professor "Karl" Schumpeter. Around the name "Karl", some eagle-eyed resident drew a little circle, with the cryptic comment: "Huh?" A confident Dunster or a callous Lowell would not have minded, but at Eliot House they are sensitive about such things. The notice was taken down yesterday and a new one posted: "Professor Josef Schumpeter...
Mark Sullivan, touring the Midwest, observed for the New York Herald Tribune and its syndicate: "[The people] are willing to accept NRA as the fire department, but have no idea of letting it become the permanent police department...
...sunspot zones migrate from 30° north and south latitude to 16° in mid-cycle; the last survivors hug the equator. What interests laymen most about sunspots is their influence on earth and earthlings' welfare. Scientists scout some notions on this subject as silly superstitions, debate others, accept a few as well substantiated. They agree that during high sunspot activity...
...great sectional patriotism, the same that dictates the restriction of Congressional choice to the residents of the electing district, stands in the way of cutting down the jurisdiction of local courts. Everywhere the impartiality and tone of the Federal Courts challenges the plain conclusion which we are unwilling to accept, that in the complex conditions of a new society the local courts, barometers of every form of sectional insanity and weakness, are not up to the business of dispensing our justice. If the Scottsboro trial is held in Decatur, who will be responsible...