Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proportion. With the one they smile at those who would divide up all the money in the nation on a per capita basis every Saturday night and at those who lament that they would rather possess pounds and francs than dollars. With our sense of proportion we understand and accept the fact that, in the short space of one year, we cannot cure the chronic illness that beset us for a dozen years...
...Whether we accept defeat gracefully or not," bristled National Commander Edward A. Hayes of the American Legion, "we will never approve the admitted tenets that are opposed in principle and in practice to our belief in the Deity and our belief in American institutions and government...
...Balkans,"* and all sprawling Rumania were agog. After three years in eclipse, the great political Dynasty of Bratianu-the makers of Rumania-were again ascendant last week over Rumania's Royal House of Hohenzollern. Buck-toothed King Carol, who has tried to play the Dictator, was forced to accept a new Cabinet chosen not by himself, as his National Peasant Party Cabinets have been, but by the National Liberal Party of the Dynasty of Bratianu...
...teaching graduate subjects, these reforms cannot be possible, but it is not so much in persons that the academic anemia has its source, as in a system which has dug itself down, a system that none but the small group of aged obstructionists would defend, but that most accept through more inertia...
...which I am associated that I never expect to hold one. Therefore, it would seem that you take malicious delight in endeavoring to embarrass me with the fact that I am doing these things merely for a selfish reason-trying to acquire a public office, which I would not accept if it were tendered me. It may be that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that...