Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard then must accept the fact that preliminary outside work cannot be required, but must be assumed. Its Faculty must not penalize the interested with elementary and factual outlines aimed at the indifferent. Instructors must make it clear that they assume a knowledge of basic facts, to be presented by carefully selected reading, not merely high-school texts. Only then can they correlate and be understood; only then can they stimulate by interpretation. And the lecture system has no other justification for its existence...
...could the U.S., based on a belief in equality, accept its power without aggressively forcing its faith on others...
...probable that Sikorski, a realistic soldier could be swayed to accept the Bug River line, which is ethnologically sound, militarily feasible, and politically sane, together with the friendship of Russia which he has helped create by numerous mutually useful pacts and agreements. The danger is that the power of the ultra-conservative Polish nobility will make Sikorski an inarticulate puppet when the time comes to face Stalin, who feels about Russia's western approaches much the same as Secretary Knox feels about our Pacific approaches, as the keystones of security...
...often short. In a nearsighted eye, the image falls in front of the retina; in a farsighted eye, behind the retina. Astigmatism is usually laid to slight eye distortions. As orthodox doctors agree that a patient's efforts can not alter the shape of an eyeball, they accept distortions as final, prescribe glasses...
Last week Harry Emerson Fosdick, 64, handed in his resignation after twelve years as pastor of the towering Riverside ("Rockefeller") church. The trustees, "considering the spiritual needs of these war days," would not accept it. They got Dr. Fosdick to remain by allowing him to confine his duties to preaching...