Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government has good reason to be jumpy. For the last two months Norway has been weathering a nationwide lockout imposed by well-organized employers to force superorganized labor unions to accept wage cuts...
Nanking's purpose in thus yielding what Canton had already seized was merely to preserve intact, so far as possible, the complicated customs collection machinery in which numerous foreign experts function as important cogs. Cog A. C. E. Braud, the English Customs Commissioner at Canton, squeaked: "I accept this new arrangement under protest." ¶ Morris Abraham Cohen, English-born Jewish trick-shot pistol expert, was gazetted by the Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From...
...commemorate the cause of the Allies, the world cannot believe that they wish to build a University Church which refuses to recognize three former members of the University. If the Corporation should urge that the donors relinquished direction of the use made of their contributions, it must accept full responsibility for a decision which is odious to the majority of Harvard...
...religious or scientific. (The Satevepost costs 10? in Canada, often weighs nearly two pounds.) These three excepted classes of periodicals will continue to enter Canada duty free, as all periodicals did until last week, when news of the Bennett Tariff reached Philadelphia, Satevepost officials announced that they will accept no more Canadian subscriptions until the Canadian Government decides whether Satevepost is educational or religious or scientific...
...help him "crash the gate." When the policeman (whom he referred to in court as "Dick") had tried to quiet him, Fess directed his hostility at him. To the magistrate Fess explained: "I was celebrating an addition to our family four days ago. I want the court to accept my apology." He showed some snapshots to the magistrate, paid $10 fine, walked...