Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtroom last Tuesday morning, he suspected something of what was in store for him. Drawn Venetian blinds excluded the sun and gave the oak-paneled chamber the fashionable decorum of a high-class café. It took the judge about 40 minutes to overrule all defense objections and accept the Government's findings of fact. Would Mr. Lewis be permitted to speak? He would, said the judge, and Lewis rose, clutching three typewritten sheets of paper...
That last sigh was drowned out by the fanfare of Wallace's first editorial, full of brave, sometimes disjointed rhetoric. Wrote Wallace: "I prefer to accept the willingness of the Soviet leaders to think more and more in democratic terms. . . . We cannot hide the weaknesses in our democracy. If we take steps to overcome these weaknesses, then I believe the Russians, believing in the genuineness of our democracy, will move toward greater political freedom...
Rally chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 struck out last night at the claim of the National Association of Real Estate Boards that tenants would accept a 15 percent increase if they received a year's lease, declaring that "the hardships which such an increase would work on untold numbers of citizens, especially home-hungry veterans, and the blow that lifting of controls would deal to the entire veterans housing program are of such magnitude as to demand immediate response from everyone. This response must be clearly evident Tuesday night at Rindge Hall...
...YORK, December 12. The 54 nations permanent headquarters committee for the United Nations Assembly voted 33 to 7 last night to accept the offer of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. of an $8,500,000 skyscraper site in Manhattan, as the permanent home of the world organization. The decision now goes to the general assembly for approval...
Operating, as it must, politically, the University has not and will probably never so much as breathe a word what it would like, by way of a memorial. They will accept anything short of a fifty, foot granite obelisk. But the student body, with a greater potential for self-expression now than ever before, can hardly feel the same way. Nomad organizations and stageless actors cry for an integrated Student Activities Center...