Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should break through the silence. It must not accept the dissolution of the Geography Department as a fait accompli. Disinterested members of the Faculty should request that the reasons for this dissolution be announced. And unless the announcement is convincing, they should initiate an investigation of the Administration's decision. No such major policy ought to be determined and settled upon under conditions ever remotely smacking of a political intra-departmental coup d'etat...
Finland yesterday decided to negotiate with Russia for a friendship and military pact--a step which some sources predict will bind the Scandinavian country with Soviet bloc. After two weeks of study, the Finnish cabinet decided to accept the Russian proposal for an alliance treaty, and suggested that the negotiations take place in Moscow...
Some TIME correspondents have long backgrounds of residence in the areas they cover; most have not. These, however, are expected to become thoroughly immersed in the scene on which they report. TIME'S editors usually, but not invariably, accept a correspondent's guidance. Correspondents sometimes overemphasize the importance of their own scene in the national picture or the world picture. It is up to the editors to set the perspective right, as the editors...
...suppose," remarks Robinson in an early letter, "it does look a little queer to see me practically doing nothing at my age." These words touched on the festering sore of his conscience. Robinson could never quite accept the implications of his belief that "dollars are convenient things to have . . . but this diabolical, dirty race that men are running after them disgusts me. . . ." While bravely declaring "business be damned," he ruefully comments that "poetry is a good thing, provided a man is warm enough...
...colleges have agreed that prospective freshmen can wait until June 15, of the year of entrance, to accept admission or scholarships. Although a deadline has never been set here, several other schools have demanded replies months before Harvard has even mailed acceptance letters...