Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger Bigelow Merriman, Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, received nine Valentines last Wednesday, in the form of telegrams collect from members of his History 1 course. Eventually, after paying for and reading eight of the billets-doux, the Professor became suspicious, and refused to accept the ninth message...
...bankers, if they are to finance huge private enterprises, will have to make up their minds sooner or later to accept interest on a permanent debt, which Mr. Insull could have paid, and to give up their custom of demanding the principal of that debt at a time when Mr. Insull or no one else can pay it. The effort to put teeth into their demand has the predictable result: enterprises which they do not know how to manage are dumped into their hands. This has happened, in its most concentrated form, to the most concentrated of our financial operators...
...Cummings and I got along together without the slightest misunderstanding in the handling of very difficult problems. In fact, I protested against his leaving the chairmanship of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. It will interest you to know that when I first suggested to Mr. Cummings that he accept the chairmanship, he declined and said that he was anxious to get back to his business...
Russians assumed that President Roosevelt was not fooled when he affected to accept as a condition for U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union bland Comrade Litvinoff's transparent pledge that no Soviet official would thereafter engage in efforts to overthrow the U. S. Government (TIME...
...world's great pianists have been well launched on their careers at 20. At that age Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...