Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment there is actually an empoverished aristocratic female wasting away in Paris. About half of the few surviving Russian royalists accept her as their princess, the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, but most of the world either ignores her existence or attacks her as an obvious hoax. The royal problem or mystery of Anastasia is romantic and intriguing. The movie about her, however...
Russian students are eager to learn about the United States, according to Merle Fainsod, Ford Research Professor of Government. In his article in the February Atlantic Monthly he stated that students are no longer willing to accept the party-line interpretation of conditions in America...
Once a Dictator. To everyone's surprise, Magsaysay freely admitted that he had indeed signed a secret pact. Disillusioned by the corruption around him while serving as Defense Minister in the Liberal government of President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysay agreed to bolt the Liberal Party and accept the Nationalist Party nomination for President. But in his pact with the Nationalists' José Laurel and Recto and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Citizen's Party, Magsaysay had made no stipulation about one term, he said. In fact, he told TIME'S James Bell last week, "Laurel...
Last fall Oberlin College was able to accept only one out of two of those who applied. Since the 19403, Yale's applicants have jumped from 1,500 to 4,000, Harvard's have more than trebled. For the 6,000 boys who say they want to get into Dartmouth next fall, there are only 725 openings. Says Dean Emery Walker Jr. of Brown (present freshman class: 635): "Ten years from now we might have 10,000 applicants. That will be the real problem...
Both magazines had agreed to print no more copies than usual, and accept no bulk orders-to discourage greedy grocers and housewifely hoarders. Thus many longtime newsstand buyers had to go without their copies...