Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday afternoon of heart failure in the Paddington infirmary at the age of 97, will have few associations for the younger generation. ... He was indeed one of the most prolific of the 'literary hacks' of that time. . . . The most interesting thing about Wells was his refusal to accept the social inferiority to which he seemed to have been born. ... He was a liberal democrat in the sense that he claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest, and he was a socialist in his antagonism to personal, racial or national monopolization. . . . Wells was a copious...
...Britain cannot resume her oldtime trade position which originated in the 18th Century with the steam engine and the power loom. "India does not want Britain's cheap cotton goods, even if Lancashire cotton operatives are willing to accept very low wages; but it will offer them high wages if they are prepared to make and send out wireless sets instead...
However hard-boiled the average American may be, he is unlikely to accept the idea of liquidating his political opponents without mercy. Whether he bases his philosophy consciously on religion or not, he believes that it is wrong to coerce and torture human beings (wrong mind you not inexpedient) wrong to have a government based on informers and intimidation. He feels it in his bones that men ought to be free. He looks forward, therefore, to having more human liberty on this continent, not less. To this end he may wish to make radical changes in the political and economic...
...sending fewer copies to newsstands. FORTUNE had already announced a reduction in its page size effective with its March issue. TIME and LIFE, before the limitation was established, had of their own accord already established limits on the amount of advertising they would accept, and other magazines may now follow. Harper's Bazaar announced the elimination of its March 15 issue (it had been published 13 times a year, will drop to twelve...
...leader. Big wages, big overtime, rigid price control to protect the workers' living standards, big unions-simply have not resulted in labor's buckling down to its job. What will do so? There is no easy answer. It is not going to be easy for labor to accept the fact that in one way or another real wages are going to be cut, yet that greater production must go on. Nor is it going to be easy to re-establish discipline in the shops...