Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This ideal man is to have a formidable sum of attributes. In the first place, he is to possess a broad knowledge that will enable him to visualize the needs of the community and fashion the educational scheme of his school accordingly. Such a man is expected to accept a position that yields a salary seldom exceeding four figures...
Program. One of Congressman Garner's first declarations was that, if Democracy organized the House, it would accept full legislative responsibility and present a program of its own. What that program was, continued to remain his secret last week. Undoubtedly it would contain plans for farm and industrial relief. Prime uncertainty: taxation. Democrats in the House where such measures must originate, had no desire to sponsor a tax upping bill which might handicap them in the campaign. They much preferred to wait and see what President Hoover-who is, after all, responsible for Federal finance-would recommend...
...spring. In effect, M.Laval reversed (perhaps rashly) the soft-spoken policy toward Germany of his own Foreign Office. When M. Briand last addressed the Chamber applause rose from the Left and Left Centre. When M. Laval spoke last week, the Centre and Right vociferously cheered his words: "We will accept no new Reparations arrangement except for the period of the economic depression! We will accept no reduction in what is due us, save in proportion as a reduction is granted us on the War debts! And we will not consent to giving German private debts priority over Reparations...
...mobile force of rail workers to be shifted from system to system as traffic conditions required. But when the rail executives asked the labor executives to accept voluntarily a 10% pay cut, they refused. Thereupon the carriers prepared to force the reduction under the terms of the Railroad Labor Act, with a long and acrimonious struggle in prospect...
Harvard recently agreed to accept, from a well-known preparatory school, a handful of students who should be exempt from entrance examinations. A stand among the first five or ten of the graduating class would be sufficient to secure admission. This was another logical step in the cutting of the red tape which makes the passage from school to college an educational task rather than a natural evolution...