Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brotherhoods had invited the rail executives to confer with them on "wages and employment." The carriers had appointed representatives to accept the invitation and "negotiate to a conclusion" a pay reduction. The roads formally asked for a 15% cut, hoped the brotherhoods would voluntarily accept 10%. Declared President Hoover last week: "It is hoped the conference arranged for will lead to an amicable and early agreement...
...Netherlands sank to a new low last week. Japan's abandonment of the gold standard threatened the Dutch textile trade in the East. Eighteen thousand spinners and weavers walked out of 31 factories rather than accept a new wage cut. In Amsterdam Communists and police set to with brickbats and revolvers over a new regulation forcing all unemployed men on the dole to show their cards twice a day to prevent fraud. In the midst of these alarums, rumors started in Britain and Germany that Holland too would go off the gold standard. The Netherlands Bank quickly spiked these...
...dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband returns to the island to save...
...Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about a girl who loses $20,000 gambling and to pay it, has to borrow from the villain of the piece. Her husband gives her money to cover the loan but the villain (Irving Pichel) refuses to accept a check. In two previous versions of the picture-one with Sessue Hayakawa and one with Pola Negri-this was the moment for the big scene where the heroine was branded with a red hot iron, on the back. As a novelty in this version, Irving Pichel applies the iron...
...will be a long time before any of these forces can be diminished. No one college can reform the whole country, all it can do is to make sincere efforts to correct all its own faults and accept the national situation as a fact. In this respect Harvard is certainly among the leaders. As long as the sport as a whole remains on its present large scale the evils of the game will always exist. As soon as one sore is healed another will break out. American football will always be ailing but no doctor can do any good since...