Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
...this type of evidence that makes the Hiss case so puzzling. If this typewriter thesis is true, then there is no doubt but that Chambers has lied, and that Hiss was "framed." But the whole story of a fake typewriter seems so fantastic that it is virtually impossible to accept. One asks over and over, how could Chambers in 1948 have found the time and seclusion necessary to make a bogus typewriter, and then plant the machine so that Hiss' lawyers would "discover" it later? Why would he not destroy the machine instead of leaving himself open to possible suspicion...
...Radcliffe Committee on Admissions mailed out letters of acceptance to the class of 1961 yesterday, Miss Constance E. Ballou, dean of admissions, has announced. She said that the college expects approximately 275 students to accept membership in next fall's freshman class...
...state's Blue Laws have been called anachronistic and confining, but they have been upheld as recently as 1947. And, after all, even though you may not spend your Sunday hunting or collecting bills, the courts have specifically held that it is permissable to accept a dog as a gift...
This prediction led Oppenheimer to state that man, in studying himself, will be forced to accept a "partial order," realizing that the very "character of the knower determines what, how, and how much he knows...