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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government holds a monopoly on making legal tender. But up to last week the Department of Justice had made no move to suppress local home-made money, regarding scrip as not being legal tender since no one is obliged to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: For Money | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...masses these shocks were real last week, but to Japanese statesmen they were convenient. Premier Saito, who was not assassinated last August, is now trying to jam through the Japanese Diet which recently reconvened (TIME, Jan. 2) bills covering Government expenditures so stupendous that the Japanese people will only accept them if they believe Japan's very life to be at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: 4,000,000 Shocks | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

During Ramadan all Moslems are especially irritable because they eat nothing during the hours of daylight. After the fasting is over Turks will be more tractable, may accept from their Dictator a new name for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Allah & Opium | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Many people accept cures and stigmata t their face value, as mystic phenomena, 'hat the scars and blood exist is well attested. The late Sir William Osier called stigmata, in general, manifestations of hysteria, probably produced by autosuggestion. The Roman Catholic Church takes no official position at all during the lifetime of a stigmatic, conducts exhaustive inquiries afterwards. Last November steps were taken to discourage pilgrimages to Therese Neumann, as was done with similar European cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peasant of Konnersreuth | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lang Time | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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