Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the question period which followed his address, Cadogan asserted that Great Britain "would accept" the U. N.'s decision on the Palestine problem, but retains reservations as to its part in enforcing the U. N.'s stand. He declared that a formal statement by Britain along these lines would be forthcoming in a few days...
Arriving in Paris, they soon find themselves without funds. Impoverished, they are forced to accept employment as butler and maidservant in order to earn a living. From here the play develops in farcical fashion...
...force is the only means by which the commissars of the Kremlin who live by the law of the jungle will be compelled to cooperate. Taft believes, therefore, that the Baruch plan is too liberal and smacks too heartily of appeasement: since Russia has so far proven unwilling to accept the Baruch plan provisions for international inspection and suspension of the veto, the plan should be put back into the files until the Russians are willing to bid for it again...
...President's attack, and his oversimplification, would help little. Business, for its part, seemed ready at last to accept its share of responsibility. It now seemed prepared to grant reasonable wage increases-to insure uninterrupted production-without raising prices. It looked as though the pattern would work out at around 10 to 15? an hour. Washington heard that Big Steel would hold its price line, despite such an increase. In Detroit, General Motors agreed to a year's contract with an average 15?-an-hour hike for 30,000 electrical workers, with the implication that price rises would...
Last week, after more than two years' study, the committee published its conclusions, The Relation oj Religion to Public Education (American Council on Education; $1). Main thesis, as summed up by George Zook: "Schools should accept religion and the churches as a factor of social life, just as much as they do the waterworks." The committee proposed to teach about religion, but not to teach religion itself, in the schools. For a while the group had considered a proposal to find and teach a set of principles common to all faiths (e.g., some form of Golden Rule), but rejected...