Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were, just as certainly, some others: a reluctance to electioneer against his commander-in-chief, an unwillingness to part company with his old mentor George Marshall, a distaste for the roughhouse of campaign politics. From the outset, Eisenhower's closest friends had been convinced that he would accept the nomination only if it came to him as it had come to Washington-unsought. It had become clear that that was impossible. At last week's meeting of the Republican National Committee in Washington, not one professional said he was for Eisenhower. But the best reason...
Bridges' warning is apparently no longer a deterrent to science's Peeping Toms. The 20th Century analyst, says Charles D. Abbott, is "passionately absorbed in the pursuit of hows and whys," and flatly refuses "to accept anything, even a work of art, without . . . trying to discover the laws that govern its making, the impulses that give it birth." So when Professor Abbott, a true son of his times, took over the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo, he struggled to find some up-to-date way of expressing his passionate interest in poetry...
...other step was taken by the Administration, which was privately prepared to back down on its insistence that ERP be run by the State Department, and would now accept Republican proposals for a separate agency responsible to the President...
...great issue when I was a CRIMSON editor in 1915-16, was much the same as it is today. It was whether the United States would accept the burden of responsibility which history had placed upon it. In those days the question was one of "preparedness." We on the CRIMSON were interventionists. We fought for-and got--a Harvard Regiment, which later turned into a part of the ROTC...
What are these values? Probably each alumnus defines them for himself. Co-operation, friendship, loyalty, and an understanding and appreciation that goes deeper than common tolerance are certainly included. Intellectual and editorial honesty, willingness to accept and consider criticism from any source, and the maintenance of breadth and varsity in personnel as well as ideas are others. But the most important virtues, to my mind, are balance and courage, temperance and nerve...