Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stalked into the Statler Hotel room where the mine operators were conferring, slammed down his brief case and barked: "Gentlemen, you have had plenty of time to confer, and I suppose you are ready to sign a contract. You are familiar with the War Labor Board proposal, which we accept, but we want $2 a day additional, as we originally requested. [Pause] And I do not want any one-legged counter proposals from you!" At midnight the miners struck...
...Quebec to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance...
...Bird Dogs. Cohn suggests that such findings are inadequate. American women, he believes, are hunting will-o'-the-wisps "with an energy, a resolve and a blatancy" that soon drives a predisposed, infantile husband to lose all interest in his home and accept his wife as he would "an old bird dog." To become adult in marital relations is not enough, says Cohn. Women must turn over a new public leaf. Instead of enthusing "for the missions of Namaqualand," they might pay some attention to "the essentials of local government." Instead of talking complacently about the glories...
...spirited Management class last Wednesday made us think of that old rhyme, "No more pencils, no more books, etc." And "Killer" Grew will positively accept any and all nominations to run for any office on the V. W. A. (Vacationing Workers of America) ticket...
...chairman of the Republican party in Indiana and father of Bob Gates in the Senior class, has finally promoted a picture of Wendell Willkie for the Hoosier State's Hall of Fame. After Willkie's book began nearing the million mark in the sales column . . . Indiana has decided to accept him as a prophet at home, since he has become one to the rest of the world. His book will be the third non-fraction book since 1901 to sell over a million copies...