Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train pulled into West Liberty, Iowa (see p. II). Secret Service men lifted Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, 73, aboard. "How are you, Herbert?" she asked proudly as they posed for photographers. She had been his first schoolteacher. She listened to a band of moppets singing "Iowa," saw the President accept a gift of corn. Sitting beside...
Work done by the League last week was to accept finally the resignation of ruddy-faced, sandy-mustached Sir Eric Drummond who has been Secretary General of the League of Nations since its foundation. Everyone expects the Assembly to debate for days or weeks before choosing Sir Eric's successor. In his opening address, Eamon de Valera gave the representatives of 53 nations a piece of his Irish mind...
...lean, scholarly Lord Lytton was himself Viceroy of India for five months. He knows his East. Release of the Lytton Report last week stirred the deepest interest of both East and West. If the League of Nations, which sent out the Lytton Commission, now proceeds to accept its findings and back up its recommendations, the League, threatened today with financial bank- ruptcy (see p. 13), has a last chance to escape political and moral bankruptcy as well...
...were undoubtedly on the same day numerous statements that English, French and German literature (classical or romantic), philosophy, the arts of form and music, respectively, were the most durable representations of the ultimate verities. Despite this curious disparity there was no evident bewilderment among the listeners. They seemed to accept the various views with a fine philosophical impartiality that might be expressed in a paraphrase of Whitman: "The professors contradict themselves? Very well, they contradict themselves...
...result of 1932's dwelling trend in Manhattan has been an increase in vacant large apartments, a sharp decrease in their cost. There has also been an unusually big spread between quoted prices and what landlords will really accept. One reason for this is the unwillingness of landlords to let tenants know prices have come down in their buildings. Asked prices for the average two-to six-room apartment in Manhattan are down from 10% to 40% from 1929, and further 10% to 15% reductions have been obtainable. Reductions in asked prices since 1929 include the following typical examples...