Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progress is sure to run into a dead end if our citizens accept the philosophy that votes can be traded for a road or for a job for an incompetent relative, or for a favor for a friend or for a handout through a state purchase order...
After lunch, Mrs. Attlee drove their small Hillman in from their suburban home in Prestwood, and Attlee spent the afternoon clearing his parliamentary office of books and files and lugging them to the car. That night came the announcement that he would accept an earldom...
...size being the number of students which, given an institution's particular resources, circumstances and function, it can educate with maximum effectiveness. I believe that, in these terms, our present enrollment is about five hundred too large, but I realize that this is subjective, unscientific judgment and I accept the fact that under pressure we are bound to depart somewhat from the ideal. And of course the optimum size will change as resources and circumstances change...
Walter A. Groves, President of the college, said yesterday he has asked Centre's Faculty Athletic Committee to decide if the school should accept inter-sectional games with colleges of much larger enrollment. The Committee will make a report to the Centre trustees by Friday, Groves said...
Analyst Ostow was not fazed by the fact that Freud's concept of a death instinct has proved difficult to accept. On it, he based his campaign to make the world safe for Eros. "It is the death instinct that is responsible for murder, wars, suicide and destructiveness," said he. While Eros fights and ultimately controls Thanatos, modern warfare could destroy most of the world's population and culture before Eros has time even to warm up. "If we are sure that psychoanalysis can attenuate the potential of death instinct - and I believe it can - then...