Search Details

Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...stunning Democratic setback, the President spoke the old, familiar words: "I accept their verdict in the spirit in which all good citizens accept the results of any fair election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: I Accept Their Verdict | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...important right wing leader, who declined to be quoted by name, told reporters that left wing extremists were forced to accept the strong Anti-Communist language by a threat to ram it down their throats" on the convention floor this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...attorney, Thomas W. Eliot '28, told the CRIMSON last night that Rankin's action "puts it squarely up to the whole committee whether they endorse Rankin's star chamber methods or not. If they vote the citation of contempt, they accept star chamber principal because the alleged incident of contempt occurred as a result of star chamber proceedings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rankin to submit Shapley citation For Contempt to House Committee | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

Students who must work to meet living expenses are currently caught in the tightest kind of squeeze. While room, board, and hospital fees go up around them, the student employees of the University are forced to accept wage seales that were determined before the war and not much modified since then. Under popular pressure, the Student Employment Service has revised upward certain wages in individual departments, but the whole picture is marked with a general unwillingness on the part of the University to compensate for the radical change in educational costs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lower Brackets | 11/9/1946 | See Source »

...withdraw to the Oder and let eastern Germany rot; or 3) accept the Byrnes invitation to join in a united German economy, perhaps by February. By then the Russians may present their Allies with 20 million hungry eastern Germans almost stripped of productive machinery-a nightmarish economic liability which could haunt Europe for many years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Red Recessional | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | Next