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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Mildred P. Sherman told Radcliffe Student Government officers yesterday that she is willing to accept whatever decision Student Council reaches concerning the administration's demand for membership lists of all Annex undergraduate organizations, including the 'Cliffe AYD chapter and Young Progressive group. Council will thrash out a final recommendation at a special meeting this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Asks 'Cliffe Council to Decide Fate of Club Lists | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

...shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sugar-Coated Poison | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Each student had had to appear before an admissions committee. The committee was tough on grinds and narrow specialists ("Germany has had enough of bookish but purposeless Herren Doktoren"). It also rejected one boy who hopefully emphasized that his grandmother had been an Aryan. But it did accept several Communists-"otherwise," explained a professor, "we could not truly call ourselves a free university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Freedom in Berlin | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...first meeting last night, the eight-man Smoker committee tentatively decided to accept last year's Union Committee recommendations and not overload the program with professional entertainers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Smoker May Be Largely Student Show | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

...Protestant, and Jewish--seek refuge. War has passed by the monks, leaving them in their unreal tranquillity with no concern greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: Paisan | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

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