Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, had an isolated mountain snuggery to look forward to, if she wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...
Last week Stern sent the stockholders a new offer. Confident that they would accept, he prepared to fly west again. With him he had a pair of right-hand men: George Nelson, advertising director of the late Philadelphia Record, and George Chaplin, managing editor of the Camden Courier and Post until Stern Sr. sold them last winter. In his pocket, Tommy Stern had a ringing, first-day editorial. Then, a few hours before plane time, he got the bad news in a terse wire: the Star had already been sold...
Right up until 8 o'clock this evening the Business School tennis courts attendant will accept entries for the University's summer championship tournament. After that, you're out of luck, for the first round opens tomorrow and there's no time or place to squeeze in a tardy racqueteer...
...Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become the new national pastime--"I Spy--a Red!" Are we to seek out the Communist position on any question and thereupon, automatically, to support the opposite side? Unless we are prepared to accept such a patently absurd criterion for political thinking, we must be prepared to find the Communists at least occasionally in agreement with us, and, as in the Smith demonstration, fighting side by side with us against a common enemy...
...aggressive is the community-church movement that some conservative clerics fear that Burkhart and his colleagues are trying to form a separate denomination. Church Builder Burkhart replies that he would be the first to advocate disbanding the community-church groups when Protestantism as a whole shows itself ready to accept the larger objectives which are its challenge. Says he: "The community church is not the final word. The final word is for Protestant organization and union; and until that time comes, the community church will be the mighty groundswell movement for union...