Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of Macon and of Bordeaux the best in the world. And yet you let yourselves be bullied and bulldozed by cranks and faddists and narrow-minded bigots. . . . I have ordered my bankers (Barclay's Bank, Aldershot) to send you five dollars. And I beg of you to accept my sincere apologies for not attending to this matter before: but I have been extremely busy, and I shall not forget it again. DR. FITZGERALD...
...truest and most Democratic sense. We are in a safe majority . . . if we stand together. . . . I hope history will point to your wise action at Chicago. . . . I shall welcome any suggestions you may have to make and I hope to see you in person very soon. Please accept my assurance that you will always have the gratitude and friendship of?...
...Valera. There is no one quite like him and this distracted world should be thankful that he is unique! [cries of 'Hear, Hear'] . . . . His demand is that Ireland be an independent and sovereign State associated with the British Empire but equally associated with any other empire. We cannot accept that! [tremendous cheer-ing]. . . . If we were to have anything like Mr. de Valera in a council of nations when we are trying to accommodate our difficulties then no business would ever be transacted...
Ogden Livingston Mills: A public officer, with the courage to accept in a time of distress the vast responsibility for national finance...
...scientists announced not one such new field but three, all strategically located in the Ural mountains, all prodigiously rich. Production from these fields, they said, would free all other Soviet oil for export. Because the revelation came hard upon an international oil parley which collapsed when Russia would not accept offered terms (TIME, June 13) oilmen accepted it with reservations...