Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great railroads of the land have held to their 1929 pledge to President Hoover not to cut wages during Depression.* Last week occurred the first major crack in their solid front. New York Central admitted that it was dickering with its 115,000 employes (December 1929: 170,061) to accept voluntarily a 10% pay reduction for one year. Reason: the Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to grant the carriers a flat 15% freight rate increase...
...summer of 1862, it was feared that Washington, the capital, would be captured by the Confederates. Since the condition of national affairs was thus, S. S. Burr '63 conceived the idea of forming a company of cavalry composed of Dartmouth students. Governor Sprague of Rhode Island offered to accept the company for a three months campaign...
Upon disbanding on October 1, they returned to Hanover where they were given a great welcome by the other students and townspeople. The faculty wished at first to give them makeup examinations, but on learning that Brown University would accept the returning heroes, the requirement was not insisted upon. One man was lost and only two were taken prisoners...
...such standards. It is the constant thought in the minds of undergraduate editors that Harvard would be more courageous and high-principled in practice if it were to take the same stand as the Navy on the three-year eligibility rule. To refuse to play Army, to refuse to accept contracts, to take up the defiance which Army officials have thrown to a corporate code of Eastern football--these things the CRIMSON is substantially sound in stating again and again...
...Hamilton gadded about with far too many women, Jefferson was a pompous hypocrite. This is a bad business. The Vagabond likes to feel that there were giants upon the earth in the old days, and that, as like as not, there will be giants again. He is willing to accept great men for the service they rendered the country; it matters as little how much Washington drank as what the real story is behind all that cherry tree discussion...