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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin replied curtly that he could not accept a proposal where one power blocked all negotiations until it gets its way on one point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Coal Controversy Divides Russia and France from Britain; Republicans Consider Tax Slashes | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

...United Nations cannot provide mild controls it cannot meet anything . . . The Japanese would accept it . . . it would be considered protective rather than repressive. It could continue as long as it was beneficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacArthur Urges U.S. Occupation Forces to Withdraw; Russia Asks 10 Billion in German Reparations | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

...should not apply to Government? Union lawyers argued that if Congress intended to exclude the Government from the Act it would have said so. Congressman James Beck had argued at the time that Congress should have said so. Vinson impatiently, almost angrily, brushed aside that argument. "We do not accept his [Beck's] views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: The Overriding Loyalty | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...bound to accept some self-love as legitimate, to admit some place for Greek and any other kind of true thinking. Agape will be God's love, which takes the initiative and gives the power to men to be 'the sons of God.' On the one side, then, there will be man with a passion which seeks for deliverance from himself and simultaneously a just regard for himself and his own perfection; and on the other, God who respects man's integrity while lifting him up into a new relation of love with Himself. With such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Loves | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...trying to sell. Nothing at all, Editor Monaghan told them; he just wanted to have some fun and pay "a simple little tribute to freedom of the press." As for pay, he referred them to his prospectus : "We publish no pictures, the last refuge of the Illiterate. . . . We accept no paid Advertisements. . . . You cannot buy a copy of PUBLICK OCCURRENCES. It is not exposed on the Public Marts, nor is it hawked about by street urchins . . . but we might be inveigled into a bit of Honest Barter. ., . . If you produce a joint of Ham, a shaving Lotion, a good Bourbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Under New Management | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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