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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student is directly responsible to the community in which his home is situated, land not to Greater Boston. In drawing up their budget, however, the heads of the Harvard Service Fund have maintained that the Harvard undergraduate is an integral part of the community, and that he cannot accept its police and fire protection, or hospital care if he is not willing to help shoulder the burden of its charities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Service Fund | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

...midst would be to both of us. As for both of us in the latter case so for Catholics in the former, the conviction as to what constitutes the common good causes us to vote as we do. If the decision of the majority is against us we accept as citizens, but continue as Catholics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

...This is the simplest way," he said. "Industry must accept the principle that it cannot earn excess profits during war-time. The only alternative is for the government to let it take all the profits it can and this Congress and popular pressure will not allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Renegotiation Plan Lauded By Business School Expert | 10/20/1942 | See Source »

...accept Mr. Wallace's vision of 'the century of the common man' in even so modest a degree as is implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from the ranks to positions of command? Victory depends on our offering the martyred nations of Europe a' cause for which to fight and die. Are we still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Toward World Unity | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...coldly refusing roles which bore him, Sanders has been suspended three times. He does not mind. Suspension leaves him free - to accept more exciting roles from other studios ; to tinker with an obstinately earthbound airplane which he has been inventing for two years ; to sleep, which Sanders regards as the pleasantest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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