Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a competition for an art centre for Wheaton College gave some intimation of how many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work of two beginners. To the celebrated internationalists, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, they gave second prize...
...also upheld the statement of President Conant in response to the investigating committee when he refused to reappoint the two men when it said, "the Corporation is of the opinion that it would be both unwise and impractical to follow the Committee's recommendations. We find no difficulty in accepting the judgment of the President and Fellows, in preference to that of the Committee, as to whether mistakes were made because of understandings among different departments of the University, whether President Conant's ruling in rgard to promotions was ill-advised, etc. Decision on these and related subjects should...
...time there was a rumor that Japan had decided not to accept games, and Finland was prominently mentioned as the foremost candidate for the games. This rumor was controverted, however, by the action of the meeting in March in Cairo, Egypt, which defintely voted that the games should take place in Japan the year after next...
...Mayor Lee D. Schroy temporarily reduced police contingents around Goodyear, swore to put every officer in town on duty when the plant reopened after Decoration Day. But a scant few hours before the zero hour, U. R. W. leaders persuaded 3,000 rubber workers gathered in meeting to accept management concessions: 1) to enforce a seniority rule, 2) to negotiate for a written agreement, 3) to discuss wage adjustments. Next morning the rubber workers went peaceably to work...
Settlement? Evidence that the Czech leaders want time to consider Henlein's demands, perhaps to accept his "autonomy" solution, was seen last week when they postponed for a fortnight a session of Parliament that is to tackle the problem...