Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith, who was Chairman of President Truman's Conference on American Family Life, will discuss his own plans for changing the divorce laws of the country. He wants each state to accept his proposals on its own, rather than have the federal government pass a universal divorce...
Ninety-seven misplaced ballots, which turned up a week after the installation, had reversed the first decision and put another candidate in the office of treasurer. Miss O'Brien refused to accept the post of sub-treasurer offered her by the Student Government executive board, and an entire revote was called...
Also, there is the question of organization. The long flashback in the middle of the book sags perceptibly. After a couple of chapters one is perfectly willing to accept the author's word for the fact that the social strata in a small New England town are extremely solidified. Mr. Marquand, however, piles on more and more illustrations. Everything that happens to Charley Gray seems caused by the fact that he isn't quite on the top of the social ladder...
...Americans will be prepared to accept Expatriate Eliot's dismal conclusions in which the sole ray of light is the grudging admission that Britain (which in Eliot's opinion is rapidly forgetting Christianity) may yet re-create a degree of culture by adopting "some inferior or materialistic religion...
Last night, still short five new members, we were forced to close up our pyramid, and accept a $2 loss per person...