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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen courts have been opened recently behind the Business School and are open to all from 11 to 2 o'clock weekdays, and from 1:30 to 6 o'clock Sundays. An attendant is on hand daily from 12 to 6 o'clock to accept reservations for these courts, which can be made two days in advance, Sundays excluded. Reservations can be made Saturday for the following Monday or Tuesday...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...Kolodin thought it should not. To him, it was all right for Flagstad to hire a hall where the public could buy tickets or stay away; it was something else for her to sing at the Met, where the public buys season tickets months in advance, and has to accept whatever singers the management offers. Added Kolodin: "I have heard it said that the only factor to be considered is Mme. Flagstad's artistry. That view I cannot share, for artists are rational beings and must be held accountable for their actions." Many a music-lover regretfully agreed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Flagstad Case | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...goes well with plans for unifying the Central and the C. & O., said Young, the Nickel Plate stock would be disposed of entirely. Finally, Young asked that he, as C. & O.'s board chairman, and Robert J. Bowman, as C. & O.'s president, be permitted to accept an invitation to join Central's board of directors (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busy Bob | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...University moguls kept their thoughts to themselves, undergraduates registered mixed emotions. Tom Connally, manager of the Crimson nine, after expressing doubt that Leo would accept the job, came up with the newest interpretation. "If we get Leo on the first base coaching box and maybe Laraine Day at third, we better give our own coaches ironclad contracts or they'll get squeezed out of their position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposal to Hire Leo Here Meets Officials' Silence | 4/12/1947 | See Source »

...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poen Sheepish, but Claghorn Uncowed as Plan Backfires | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

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