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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems Harry Truman applied the good-neighborly gospel: "Do by your neighbor as you would be done by." The nations must come to realize, he said, that the welfare of the world was more important than any individual nation's gain. Said the President: "We are going to accept that golden rule, and we are going forward to meet our destiny, which I think Almighty God intended us to have-and we are going to be the leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homily | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Tending more & more to accept the Germans, the Americans did not really impress the Germans. The plain truth was that Americans in Germany, as a group and as the representatives of a great power, were serving neither themselves nor America well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: You Don't Know What You Want | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...late '303, he was offered an attractive proposition by the Nazis. How would he like to take a tour through Germany, with all expenses paid and perhaps study in a Hamburg university for a while? When Dietrich reported this offer to the FBI, he was told to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...week of suggestions and rejections, solutions and resolutions had merely befogged the fundamental issue: until Hindu and Moslem agreed, they could scarcely expect to agree with Britain. Probably the compromise which neither side was now willing to accept might look more feasible once the electorate had pronounced on Pakistan. Then Indians might find more truth than poetry in the words of Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, the Congress Party's official historian'."Differences in India are hyphens that unite, not dashes that divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hyphens & Dashes | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...enter a temple, good-standing Mormons must be "morally clean," accept doctrines and sustain authorities of the church, have no sympathy with new-rule-breaking polygamists. Anybody may go into a not-so-holy Mormon tabernacle or church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For the Faithful Only | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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