Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Desired "to acknowledge with pro found thanks the reception which has been accorded to me by this country. I accept it as proof of their loyalty and devotion to the Crown." ¶ Announced negotiations had been be gun with the U. S. for completion of the St. Lawrence waterway. ¶ Determined "to maintain a policy of rigid economy, consistent with the dis charge of those . . . obligations, which is essential to preservation of the integrity and credit of the Dominion." ¶ soundness" Rejoiced of over Canada's the finances. "fundamental...
Announcement was made yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association that the University baseball squad will make no southern trip this year during the spring vacation. Word has just been received from Navy, University of Maryland and Georgetown that they are willing to accept the cancellation...
...Franklin Roosevelt, Newton Baker came under the spell of Wilsonian idealism. Both worked hard for their idol at the hectic Baltimore convention of 1912. Both were rewarded with membership in the Wilson political family. Mr. Baker was first offered the Department of Interior portfolio. He refused it only to accept the War Department post in 1916. His activities as head of the nation's greatest army were last year glowingly described in Newton D. Baker; America at War by Frederick Palmer...
...Admiral, in the unmistakable language of an ultimatum, had issued his demands to Shanghai's Mayor Wu. Frantic, the Mayor and the tycoons of the city had agreed to accept them all-not only to make reparation for the tousling of five Japanese monks who had paraded through Shanghai streets beating drums; but also to abolish the anti-Japanese societies which promote the boycott on Japanese goods (TIME...
Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and his sedate band lavished almost too much care on the hard, staccato beginnings of the rhapsody, the smart, shifting jazz rhythms which followed. People were enthusiastic about the smooth, melodic middle theme which the Koussevitzky strings played superbly but Bostonians never really accept any new music without consulting one of two critical oracles, aged Philip Hale of the Boston Herald or H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker of the Transcript. Gnomelike Critic Parker thought "this Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table...