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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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NROTC units across the country will accept members of AFROTC at colleges where the Air Force groups are being disestablished, the Navy announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy to Admit Students Dropped by Air Force | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...eagerness to accept Simon's proposal, the University neglected to ask for a share of the gate receipts and settled for mere expenses. "But we have not the slightest doubt that the trip will bring forth good fruits," the Alumni Bulletin prophesied smugly. "Whatever else may be said of intercollegiate athletic contests, they turn the hearts of the graduates to their Alma Mater...

Author: By Phillip M. Boffey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/20/1955 | See Source »

...when more than a hundred "Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly killed by a troop of Mormons. The Civil War interrupted the Federal Government's prosecution of the case, involving 36 suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. Insulted with impunity, he still kept his chin up, and when Bishop Roundy "shook hands & said, You are [now] as Rough as an old Grisley, I replied . . . Every Dog will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Splendid Saga | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Although a college degree has been the only formal requirement for admission to the Law School for 60 years, Grisweld said that increasing numbers of applicants might force the School to accept only the most broadly trained...

Author: By Philip M. Soffey, | Title: Dean Griswold Decries "Specialized" Applicants | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...School made it plain that it would not accept applicants whose college training was over-specialized, he said, there might be some salutary reaction on the part of the colleges and undergraduates...

Author: By Philip M. Soffey, | Title: Dean Griswold Decries "Specialized" Applicants | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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