Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government desire to make it clear that they are not prepared to accept or to recognize changes of the nature indicated [closing of China's Open Door] which are brought about by force. They intend to adhere to the principles of the Nine-Power Treaty and cannot agree to unilateral modification of its terms...
...special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked him every few weeks. At first Louis and Anna refused to believe the doctors' verdict that their Jerry would never grow beyond the mental age of two. Later they had to accept...
...United States own or control something like three-fourths of the earth's surface. . . . They constitute the real world powers and are the Haves. . . . Japan, Italy and Germany . . . although territorially no match for the four giants . . . are inhabited by spirited peoples by no means willing to accept their present inferiority as if it had been ordered for all time by a divine decree...
Informed by worried Hudson's Bay Co. officials that its charter, granted in 1670, requires the Company to present a visiting British monarch with two live elk and a pair of black beavers, King George VI agreed that on his visit next spring he would accept instead, two mounted elk heads, two beaver skins...
...Board's ruling, made on December 29, awarded the workers a 10 per cent increase in wages, a 48 hour week, and deferred the vacation question until sometime later. But, according to Joseph Stefani, business manager of local 106, the management refused to accept the agreement and is demanding a review of the case...