Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please accept my congratulations upon your accurate story about Professor Joseph Armstrong [TIME, May 17]. I am one of the "thousands of Baylor students who have taken his poetry course on Robert Browning," and I have never forgotten the pleasure and privilege. Through your [story] I once again relived the days when, as Dr. Armstrong puts it, I was "under the drippings of the sanctuary...
Passer, a 1943 summa cum laude who received an A.M. in Economics today, spoke on what he termed "the new dollar diplomacy which uses our financial resources to promote world peace.... America, the strongest nation, must accept the major responsibility for establishing a lasting peace," he declared...
...Corporation last week voted an indefinite leave of absence to Milton Katz '27, Byrno Professor of Administrative Law, enabling him to accept an appointment to the staff of ECA. Previously, W. Avorill Harriman, ECA Ambassador, had asked Professor Katz to handle the legal problems of the program...
...friends of Russia, its frequent blasts against U.S. foreign policy. Editor Shipler himself had been in hot water last fall after his firsthand report that there was no suppression of religious freedom in Communist Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, Shipler admitted that Marshall had suddenly decided not to accept the award...
...catharsis. In an early entry, he said of his writing that "my doubts stand in a circle around every word." He might have added-around every deed. Kafka was a man impaled on the spears of scruple: he could not be satisfied with the approximations of truth most men accept, but had to burrow into them and try to redefine them...