Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three eastern railroad executives have accepted the invitation of the Railway Labor Executives Association to negotiate the issues of wage cuts and of employment. Previous attempts at an agreement failed because the representatives of railway labor were unwilling to accept a ten per cent wage cut without a guarantee that the present number of men should continue to be employed...
...this regulation would be adhered to strictly and, if any man received money, would be disqualified immediately from further play at Harvard would face the situation honestly. It would make for poorer baseball teams since stars from secondary schools would go to colleges that openly permit their athletes to accept money for summer playing. But Harvard does not desire to be a haven for such athletes...
...done its part well. It cannot be too strongly emphasized, however, that inter-House activities of every kind depend for their success primarily on undergraduate interest. They cannot survive as hot-house products. In practice, as far as athletics are concerned, this means essentially that House captains must accept the responsibility of organizing their respective teams...
...Wall Street had its Hitler scare, he surprisingly declared: "Germany cannot pay both her political [Reparations] and her commercial [short-term credit] debts. For my part I reject the payment of political debts which are the result of extortion and have no legal basis. On the other hand, I accept the obligation to pay commercial debts which have been contracted as between businessmen...
...about "facing it." In the case of After All the situations to be faced are a daughter's going off and living with an architect for two years before he marries her; and her brother's unhappy marriage with a poisonous Bohemian. The parents, particularly the mother, accept their woe with a good deal of self-conscious martyrdom. Spectators, aware that Playwright van Druten has done a faithful job of domestic reporting, leave After All with a tendency to remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns...