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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite emphasis upon accommodating veterans in the University, every effort will be made to accept a "respectable number" of non-veteran Freshmen coming directly from high schools next fall, Richard M. Gummere '07, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Next Fall's Influx of Freshmen Will Approach Normal | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

...guess I should accept congratulations in about the way that a pregnant woman does. She didn't want to get in that condition, but as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Man with a Charm | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...President took steps to accept his vast responsibility for the world's food supply. As the Government moved to speed wheat shipments overseas (see BUSINESS), Harry Truman called World War I's famed food expert, former President Herbert Hoover, and a Famine Committee of twelve other prominent citizens* to the White House. Their job: to formulate a program through which the U.S. public could voluntarily practice self-denial as the price of national self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Self-Denial & Self-Respect | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...like a new note of British resolution. How much Russian pressure would peaceful Britain stand? Four points seemed certain; Britain will not: 1) abandon Iran to Russia; 2) admit Russia to dominance in the southern or western Mediterranean; 3) waive her right to a western European grouping; 4) peacefully Accept any Russian move which directly weakens her Empire position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Bet on Peace | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...death stepped closer, Unjebanenjebet was at last obliged to accept a hand-me-down: a roomy, elegant coffin of pink granite which had obviously belonged to a high priest of Amun. Then death came. Embalmers laid the General's linen-wrapped mummy in the secondhand sarcophagus, put the lid on, and built the coffin into its niche in the royal tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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