Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became aware that the forces and skills which scientific research was turning loose on the world could possibly liberate, and might destroy it. Wells believed that in order to cope with these forces and with himself, man had only to embrace all that a scientist would call reasonable, and reject all that a scientist would call unreasonable...
Every issue of TIME has a dividend of information which you can accept or reject, as you choose. This dividend is the footnotes that punctuate your copy of TIME. They consist, generally, of material which could not be incorporated in the main body of a story without interrupting its continuity. Therefore, you can, if you wish, ignore them without losing the sense of the story. The subject has been a continuous and pleasant controversy for the pro and anti footnoters among...
...works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer to reject a few cliches: metaphors involving roots and tides appear regularly at big moments. All the big moments that could be expected are supplied...
...make up for men who missed out by going to war, Columbia will handle 750 law students each year, but hopes to cut back to its normal quota of 500 by 1951. Even with an expanded enrollment, the law school must reject hundreds of applicants. Before the war, Columbia took in one out of two; now it turns down three out of four. So do Michigan, Cornell and other overcrowded law schools...
JINNAH: Did I not ask you to reject the Cripps plan in 1942 and Wavell plan...