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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would accept the hardest disciplines if he could be convinced that there is no conflict between religion and science; if his intellectual, rational self did not always enter into collision with his sentimental, intuitive self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Telefinality | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...very discouraging picture of the chances of getting international control of the atom. Reading the stories of the procedural merry-go-round at Lake Success, the public might not realize how discouraging the picture was-and the fact that it had got that way because of Russian reluctance to accept genuine atomic control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Discouraging | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...nearer a final soluton today than it was two months or two years ago, the Palestine crisis still awaits firm and honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Progress | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...strong impetus stemming from high places for permanent cutbacks in tutorial. Whether this squares with the Administration's claim that tutorial is now on a "firmer footing" is left for future tutor-less undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed to slip from view: a highly dangerous development if students are to grow aware of what they are losing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Infirm Footing | 2/12/1947 | See Source »

Although acknowledging that last week's vote of the College did not match their advance hopes, the Student Council last night elected to accept, with two dissenting votes, the student trend in favor of the new constitution and to proceed with formal ratification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Ready To Ratify Constitution | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

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