Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Please accept many thanks for your wonderful program you send us through the air every Friday night. We all enjoy it very much, and I sincerely hope you keep it up. It is so much more interesting than when we get it just as news. The acting is splendid, I mean of course the voices. I will buy your TIME magazine today. Thanking you again...
President Bacigalupi's election statement contained a flourish of humility: "My decision to accept is based entirely upon an abiding attachment to our splendid institutions and organizations, conceived and founded by A. P. Giannini, and upon an ardent desire to contribute my best endeavors toward the continued success of our undertakings. . . . I have no delusions regarding my ability to contribute anything of an extraordinary nature...
Late last year bankers for American Woolen Co. prevailed upon two capable executives to accept high positions in Woolen. They were William Bishop Warner, president of McCall Corp. and now Woolen's chairman, and Lionel ]. Noah, until February executive vice president of Gimbel's department store, now Woolen's president (TIME...
...shattered the idyllic calm of poor Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. Sir Ernest was told that he could either get up on his feet and fight the presslords' battle against Stanley Baldwin or they would smash his candidacy by putting up a third Conservative candidate. What could he do but accept the aid of two such very rich...
...disregard such arguments as the suggestion that hunting saves the stag from dying 'in old age of starvation from loss of teeth'-to accept that might be to run the risk of being invited to hunt old-age pensioners on the ground that we should not only spare them the pain of toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because...