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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked a correspondent: "Are you willing or ready to use General Sherman's remark that 'I will not accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Action v. Waiting | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...deal with a counterrevolution is to take its principal leaders into the existing Government. The Villarroel regime may invite Arze to join. Whether he would accept is not certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Counterattack | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...people the Moscow explosion was more than a possible argument in a political debate. If there is one thing all U.S. citizens could accept as the issue of this war, it is the notion that Law and not Force should regulate international relations. Even so, last week no U.S. citizen, even among Polish immigrants, would have advocated serious U.S. commitments to correct the Russo-Polish border this way or another. But many Americans felt that Stalin's P.S. to Teheran was quite a mortgage on the desired future of U.S.Russian friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: P. S. to Teheran | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Cope's proposed solution: Englishmen should agree to form a republic, Afrikanders should accept it and agree to stay within the British Commonwealth. Anti-British Afrikanders, who outnumber and might outvote the English, were delighted. The English press was hostile. ("Sheer folly," grunted the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Trial Balloon | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...accept as binding only the moral laws of Mosaic legislation and Prophetic teaching. We reject the rabbinical and Mosaic laws which regulate diet, priestly purity, dress and similar laws which originated in ages and under influences of ideas and conditions which today are entirely unsuited, unnecessary and foreign to ... progressive Judaism in modern America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Storm Over Zion | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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