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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Chamber declares the Indian States will join an all-India federation on the assumption that the Crown will accept the responsibility of guaranteeing to them the necessary safeguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pomp & Princes | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...late Charitarian Nathan Straus, assumed leadership for the first time in fund-raising activities of any sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near at hand. . . . Millions of Jews all over the world will say Leshona Habo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Zion, Ten Years After | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Trustees of the Stanley Cup last week tried to persuade National League hockey officials to accept a challenge from the Chicago Shamrocks, champions of the "outlaw" American League, to a series for the Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanley Cup: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Willy-nilly every man, no matter how graceless his exterior, plays the polite host to bevies of little animals who pasture on his interior reaches. Unknowingly he takes most of them in with other foods. They, more knowing, accept no substitutes: while they have him they eat him, and him alone. Taken together, these constitute man's interior environment. But there are others who attack from the outside. Mosquitoes, crab-lice, bedbugs, fleas help to make life what it is. If hitherto you have found your acquaintances uninteresting, this entertaining account of their pests & parasites will help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Story | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Last week The American Jewish World viewed the conversion of Pan Raczynski as a "strange case." It said: "For centuries it was considered [by civil authorities] a crime for Jews to accept a Christian convert. At certain periods in history, it constituted a capital crime. Now we have a decision of a Supreme Tribunal whose members are probably all Catholics, denying to the Rabbinate the legal right to refuse a Catholic conversion to Judaism. Verily, the world does change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jewish Convert | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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