Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation, meetings at which all outsiders, from Dean to doorman, are barred. Durant must accept the law as it comes down from the mountain and administer it for the mere mortals of the University...
...private enterprise. Between 1911 and '30, Durant was intermittently occupied with the construction of harbor works in Cuba, bridges in Paraguay and the mammoth International Telegram and Telephone exchange in Madrid. In 1934 he left a post as supervisor of public works for the State of New York to accept a surprise offer as Business Manager of Harvard, a post created...
Every issue of TIME has a dividend of information which you can accept or reject, as you choose. This dividend is the footnotes that punctuate your copy of TIME. They consist, generally, of material which could not be incorporated in the main body of a story without interrupting its continuity. Therefore, you can, if you wish, ignore them without losing the sense of the story. The subject has been a continuous and pleasant controversy for the pro and anti footnoters among...
...American delegate put it, "seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept a draft of the invitation form previously proposed by the Russians themselves. Molotov then said that he could not now accept even his own draft. Byrnes began to get mad. He got madder when Molotov explained that he would hold up any invitation until the Big Four agreed to rules...
...Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water, and I knew that never, never again would I feel the same about the Party, the Leader, the Cause. . . . I would work for the government, I would accept Party assignments, I would make speeches. But it would be all playacting, strategy, while waiting patiently for a chance to escape...