Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During His Life." The U.S. had come to accept payment to veterans as inevitable-like death and taxes. As long ago as 1636 the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth decided: "If any man shalbee sent forth as a souldier and shall return maimed, hee shalbee majntained competently by the Collonie during his life." The U.S. had been maintaining its old soldiers ever since, although not always competently...
Last week the coalition in the Senate took its turn at shredding an Administration measure. The target: the so-called 65? Minimum Wage Bill, for which there is little love in Dixie. Southerners scrambled to load it down with riders the Administration could never accept. Examples: depowering of the OPA, curbs on labor unions, 20% increases in farm commodity prices. The strategy was clear: burden the bill with amendments and make the Administration compromise on a lower minimum wage figure...
...Attlee's tone, in Jinnah's cries of pain and anger, in unofficial British comment, observers saw signs that the British, often accused of supporting the Moslems against the Hindus, were ready to work for Indian unity. If Jinnah will not accept a compromise, the Viceroy may impose a constitution on India over the Moslem League's protest. The constitution might include a bill of rights to protect the Moslems, promise them the right to secede after a period of years. In other respects the Congress Party, now speaking for 60% of British India, would shape...
...This," says Santayana, "is a strange picture, and I am not sure that the Catholic Church is pledged to accept it." He thinks that the traditional concept of immortality "is simply a misunderstanding, perhaps a verbal misunderstanding only, of inevitable but clumsy metaphors. . . . Illusion comes in . . . when the ingrained habit of speaking metaphorically congeals into an incapacity not to think mythically...
...Council Committee on Scholarships will meet on Wednesday night, March 27, between 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock in the Council Room at Phillips Brooks House to accept scholarship applications...