Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen has often denied that he would accept a second place on a ballot with Thomas E. Dewey, but has never made a similar statement concerning Taft...
Only the shortage of competent assistant professors in the Department delays the institution of an obviously-needed change. Young instructors, who might appear logical to man this sort of course, will hesitate to accept an assignment which they might savor but which they could certainly not utilize in terms of their academic world. Meanwhile the monumental Gide must find a casual comparative niche with Hardy and Conrad in English 62 rather than emerge in the context of his own culture...
Under Constitutional procedures, a resignation calls for the appointment of the second man on the last general ballot. He was unable to accept the post and a new procedure had to be devised...
...universities had jumped 27% and in state universities 29% since 1939. Tuition in law schools is up 46%. Warned the Office of Education: when the U.S. Government stops ladling out millions of dollars under the G.I. Bill of Rights, colleges will either have to cut their prices, or accept only the well-to-do students...
...Manhattan "liberal" intellectuals and their children. Now he has written his first novel. It gets its title from the opening words of The Divine Comedy,* but in other ways has nothing in common with Dante. It is, in fact, a good and honest novel about the modern inability to accept such a hell and heaven as Dante imagined...