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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have often noticed your readiness to correct erroneous statements and, no doubt, you will accept my assurance that "Fildes" has never rhymed with "Shields," but always with "Childs" [TIME, June 23]. . . . As for his "goatee" . . . his was an ordinary beard (see cut) as worn by many "gents" of his day. He looked like the doctor in his picture [of "The Doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...inscrutable Mr. Hughes, who had been ignoring the whole thing in Hollywood, suddenly got mad. In an open letter to Brewster he blared: "Since you think it is so horrible for anyone to accept my hospitality, why don't you tell about the $1,400 worth of airplane trips you requested and accepted from me? . . . Why not tell that this investigation was really born the day that TWA [in which Hughes is the principal stockholder] first flew the Atlantic . . . the day TWA first challenged the theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways had the sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Check, Please! | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Cried Krasilnikov: the Western powers are trying to undermine "young democracy" in Albania. "Albania is being asked to accept conditions dictated by foreign powers. There is no reason why she should be obliged to become the tool of the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Gentleman Is a Liar | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...subordinate Army post after merger becomes a fact, the President nominated able, even-tempered, 6 ft. 5 in. Under Secretary Kenneth C. Royall. A former $50,000-a-year trial lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C., Royall had reluctantly abandoned his independent, easygoing life soon after World War II began, to accept a colonelcy in the Army Service Force's Legal Section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Line-Up | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...been done so often before, Mr. White places the blame for World War II on the harsh Versailles Treaty, the iniquitous French, and the inexorable movement of economic forces which forced Germany to accept Hitler. And the moral to the tale is that we must "permit a free and democratic Germany to emerge from the present chaos, in which this industrious and talented people may work and enjoy the fruits of their labors on an equal basis with other nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

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