Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife were still living in sin. Once again they were arrested, tried, found guilty. Once more they took refuge in appeal. But last week the Supreme Court ruled against them. Said Justice Felix Frankfurter for the 6-to-3 majority: each state can determine for itself whether it will accept the divorce procedures of another, or reject them...
...Japanese war was won (TIME, May 28), Prime Minister Winston Churchill moved decisively. First he canceled the fortnight's holiday he had planned in the south of France. Then, twice in a single day, he drove formally to Buckingham Palace-at noon to resign, four hours later to accept King George VI's invitation to form a new government...
...experimental biology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and now published by his widow and longtime coworker, Ruth Crosby Noble, in The Nature of the Beast (Doubleday Doran, $2.75). A few of the book's assertions were established by experiment. Readers are asked to accept the rest on faith in the Nobles' long observation and deductive powers. Some other Noble findings...
...fought attacks by power interests and partisan politicians; he also ignored the advice of quacking liberals, refused to cram TVA down anyone's throat. Said he: "The test of a plan is not just whether it is good for people. It is whether they will accept it." He refused to set up special experimental farms. Instead, by offering free fertilizer for the beaten soil, he persuaded thousands of farmers to experiment for themselves. TVA encouraged communities to form their own power districts. It never used its authority in attempts to compel acceptance. TVA did not destroy state boundaries...
...coalition Government, which had successfully withstood the stress & strain of war, showed signs of collapsing under the pressure of peace. This week 1,100 delegates of the Labor Party, biggest (170 seats) opposition group in Parliament, met at Blackpool. The chief question before them was: whether to accept Prime Minister Winston Churchill's invitation to stay in the Government until the Japanese war is won-or to quit the coalition forthwith. The answer was emphatic. The conference voted unanimously to quit. Party wiseacres promptly predicted that Mr. Churchill would ask the King to dissolve Parliament and call a general...