Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter accept. What Mary Smith does not know is that the young man is J. B. Ball's only son, rebelliously trying to make his own way in the world. What neither she nor the young man know is that Ball Sr. is the hotel owner's chief creditor...
...Post: "Mr. President, would you tell us now if you would accept a third term...
...initial print order of 600,000 is planned for the combined magazine. Before Literary Digest mispredicted a Landonslide last year it alone had 685,537 circulation. The Digest will accept liquor advertising, something which Literary Digest never did. The firm of Funk & Wagnalls will continue in the book and dictionary publishing business under the management of Robert J. Cuddihy & sons, who own 60% of its stock. President Wilfred John Funk, son of Founder Dr. Funk and 40% stockholder, is reported to have an idea for a new magazine up his sleeve...
...Collector Davis cannot take more for any property than the amount of unpaid taxes. Thus the bidding is in terms of fractions of the property offered, the fractions decreasing as bidders express willingness to accept less & less of the property for the fixed tax sum sought. Usually the fractions go no smaller than one-eighth or one-sixteenth, but at one day's sales in Miami last week the bidding grew so hot that prices spiraled dizzily downward to thousandths, millionths, billionths. then trillionths, finally quadrillionths. Record was set by a man who paid $115.85 for a certificate representing...
...controlled inquiry demands a rich background and a disciplined insight." Is not this equally true in all the countless affairs of life where judgments must be made? And unless a man can make a satisfying pattern of his own individual judgments he is under a great temptation to accept some one else's pattern; in other words to conform...