Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, the split atom is here to stay. Let us accept it with some fear and trembling, but let us also accept it with all the faith we can muster in man's intelligent capacity and desire to harness it beneficently, as he has electricity...
...asking Dartmouth's President Hopkins to "accept unexamined the great blocks of Jewish applications which come in." Let him subject them and the candidates from all other American groups, great and small, to as rigorous academic tests as are required to maintain the standards of Dartmouth. But let the "restricted enrollment" be determined by competition in those tests, and not by racial, sectional, religious, or any other quota-for which there is no real justification other than an arbitrary, antidemocratic prejudice...
...watched the formal surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, received the first of the five pens with which General MacArthur signed the document. Then, for the supreme moment of his wonder-packed week, he returned to Baguio, to accept the surrender of all Japs in the Philippines from the now fangless "Tiger of Malaya," Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita...
...President Truman may, if he likes, regard the car as a personal gift. There is no law covering U.S. citizens' gifts to a President. A constitutional dictum bans the President from accepting gifts from kings, princes or foreign states, but he may accept such gifts for the nation, enjoy their use while he remains President...
...State Department was embarrassed. It could not officially welcome the University of Chicago professor of economics (and naturalized U.S. citizen) as an ambassador. It was ready to accept him as such, but Warsaw had not yet formally notified Washington of his appointment...