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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Representative Edwin Snow rose on the floor of the Idaho legislature, was recognized by the chair-and asked pretty, redheaded State Representative Edith Miller to marry him. Said thirtyish Miss Miller, after order had been restored: ". . . on a point of personal privilege I accept Mr. Snow's proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...eyed." The Federalists don't propose immediate disarmament just as they don't propose a military defense alone. A policy statement made last year says that the U.W.F. is "under no illusions concerning the character of the Soviet regime," but "there may be a chance" that the Russians will accept some sort of federation. If that should fail, the U.W.F. figures that a partial union, presumably along Streitian lines, would have to do for the lack of something better...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...Many men in Soviet Russia . . . have died in concentration camps, or by other means, because they would not accept the untruths that Dr. Spitzer has chosen to espouse . . . Dialectical materialism! A better name would be dialectical murder . . . Any scientist who has such poor power of discrimination as to choose to support Lysenko's . . . genetics against all the weight of evidence against it is not much of a scientist, or, a priori, has lost the freedom that an instructor or investigator should possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Freedom & Lines | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...scientist cannot accept the 'Will of God' unless he knows who is capable of interpreting it accurately," Frank commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Agree on Natural Laws for Society at Forum | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with his 1949 dinner to honor Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam only a few days off, Dr. Shipler was having trouble again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whose Front? | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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