Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooling-off period, no strike could be called. The commission's findings would not be legally binding on the company or the union, the President said, but he hoped that public opinion would force both parties to accept them...
After twelve weeks of horsetrading, the U.S. this week set out solid terms for a loan to Britain. Washington thought the British, anxious for dollars with which to reconvert their economy to peace, would accept. The terms...
When war came John Amery turned up in Vichy France. He spoke over the German radio, tried to enlist British prisoners for action against the Russians. In spite of John Amery's family connections, it took British justice just eight minutes to accept his plea of guilty, sentence John Amery to be hanged...
...Congress debates the advisability of tripling the Naval Academy, the men now in training have dismissed every idea of making the Navy a career. ... In conducting a poll, I have found that out of 3,000 midshipmen at most 500 plan to accept commissions and stay in the Navy as career officers. The feeling is strongest in the upper classes, who unreservedly advise all underclassmen to resign now while there is yet time to return to colleges where they can learn...
...whose wife was hospitalized in Boone, Iowa, with pneumonia, went to a White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. hospital, with a bad cold. Reports from both hospitals: improving satisfactorily. The new Chief of Staff (see ARMY & NAVY), unable to return to Europe to tidy up his affairs there, could not accept in person a little present from the Scottish people: an apartment of his own (with elevator) in rambling Cul-zean Castle on the Ayrshire coast...