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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near the Aral Lake, north of the Caspian Sea. . . . They were pagans at first, but their Prince, in the 7th or 8th Century, said: 'It is shameful for us to be pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that the Jews would kill themselves rather than give up their faith. So he set up Judaism as the religion of the Khazar Dynasty in southern Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Overstatement | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...thus accept the fact that they hunt each other to the death are not to be expected to bury the hatchet except in each other's necks. Americans who talk coalition with the Communists sound to the Chinese a little like the late General Patton's unhappy comparison of the German Nazi v. anti-Nazi struggle with the rivalry between U.S. Democrats and Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Post Haste. "We're conservative, but I don't think blindly so," says the Post's $74,519-a-year editor. "I consider Henry Wallace our most dangerous citizen, but we accept articles about him." Hibbs feels not at all defensive about his fiction, which is poorer than in the '203 (like magazine fiction generally). "But our readers seem to know what they want," says Hibbs. "We did without Tugboat Annie for seven years and the complaints never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shiny New Post | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Senator Tuft (R-Ohio) told reporters that while no final action had been taken, Senate conferees seemed in the mood to accept a provision of the House labor disputes measure which would limit the fees to be fixed by unions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murray Bans United Steelworkers From Striking for Next Two Years; Congress May Restrict Union Fees | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

...provision is regarded as the only section of a so-called workers' "bill of rights" in the House measure which the Senate group may accept. Senators contended that several other provisions are covered in other sections of their bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murray Bans United Steelworkers From Striking for Next Two Years; Congress May Restrict Union Fees | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

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