Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week it was evident that Congress could hardly bring itself to accept such Spartan cures as Banker Eccles recommended. With the new strains of the European Recovery Program still to be considered, the U.S. was bound to keep on sniffling for a long time...
...Europe. At London Molotov countered by attempting again to delay a German peace settlement, covering up his intention with a shameless bid for German favor. German Communists promptly seconded Molotov by adopting the slogan: "The Fatherland is in danger." In fact, the U.S. and Britain favor (and France will accept) a unified Germany. What the Western powers will resist at London is either a Communist-dominated Germany or the kind of international arrangement which will allow the Russian veto to paralyze recovery and leave both Germany and Western Europe in an economic morass...
After the cancellation of the dinner on October 22, the morning before it was to take place, the Armenian Progressive League refused to accept a refund of a $200 deposit, handing the case to their lawyer. No court action has yet been initiated...
...injustice to the applicant under the system, as the schools see it, is that a man who is not accepted at the college of his first choice will not be accepted by the colleges of his second and third choice. There are exceptions--about 10 second choices were admitted to Harvard's present Freshman class. But for these exceptions, the man who is forced, for instance, to choose between Harvard and Yale frequently finds himself entirely done out of an education. For most major colleges consider being indicated the first choice as a vital factor in their admissions policy...
...competition with private schools, which usually maintain cagey strategists on their staff occupied primarily with getting the boys into college. The admissions boards see the problem from the other side. Harvard, to take an example, has been faced with three to four satisfactory applicants for each one it could accept during the last few years. It must choose between them on some basis, and finds the choice system as good as any. It feels that students rejected by Harvard most likely would not be accepted by Yale or Columbia, whether or not Yale or Columbia had been alienated...