Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress, but she, too, declined the honor. The reader has Author Lonyay's full assurance that another mistress, Mary Vetsera, was delighted to accept. She was thrilled at the thought of being found dead in bed with the heir to the throne...
...informal poll last night revealed that most girls will accept the new room and board rate as the necessary result of higher living costs. Two of the girls interviewed are planning to move into the Annex cooperative house in order to cut down on costs by cooking their own meals...
...Medical School will not make use of Local Draft Board Memorandum Number Seven to grant deferments to pre-medical students, Dean C. Sidney Burwell announced last night. Memorandum Seven permits medical schools to provisionally accept pre-medical students in their-first or second year of college and recommend them for deferment...
...sports athlete is breaking all sorts of records, the chances are that he will win one of the League championships and automatically win a major H. The Michigan system which you think should be embraced makes no major-minor distinction. How many old grads, or under-grads, would passively accept a change involving awarding major letters to all Harvard athletes, ranging from yachtsmen to polo players...
...speech to Congress yesterday, the President asked for a peacetime Army of 677,000 officers and men. But the Army already has 660,000 in its ranks. This means that it can accept only 17,000 recruits and draftees in the next fiscal year, plus replacements to vacancies...