Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other international big tycoons finished drafting at Paris the so-called Young Plan, embodying their potent recommendations as to how German Reparations may best be paid through an International Bank of Settle-ment (TIME, March 25, et seq.). Politicians representing Germany and the Creditor Powers must now accept or reject the tycoons' advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina's tidy Netherlands would provide, it was felt, an ideally placid atmosphere...
...rank of Colonel and stationed in Turin, balloted morosely in company with his brother officers. Of the 9,650,570 males qualified to vote (females having no franchise), 8,506,576 voted as II Duce wished, only 999,830 stayed at home, and a minute 148,064 balloted to reject the solid Fascist slate of 400 hand-picked candidates for the Chamber of Deputies?the only candidates allowed to run. Rejection of the slate? which no one for a moment believed remotely possible?would have meant simply the holding of a new election. Statistics often lie, but last week...
...prompt response of the authorities to the "railroading" charges should be conclusive enough to prove that the Faculty had ample opportunity to reject the House Plan if it saw fit to do so. The Committee of Instruction, the governing body within the Faculty, knew of the House Plan before the Faculty did and gave its details unanimous approval. This fact strengthens the official cause, even providing the minimum of time and consideration were given the matter by the bodies as a whole. The significant but unfortunate thing is that the authorities should have to take the defensive side...
...competition on the Cambridge scene and undergraduates seldom achieve the more established reviews, but, even so, to publish a poem as distinguished as Mr. J. R. Agee's "Anne Garner" is a rare bit of luck. It is inconceivable that any editor in his right mind should reject...
...reason for any conflict between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist or scientific point of view, nor should belief in one theory necessarily force us to reject the other. Belief is a matter of faith, and I believe If you will pardon me for saying it, my belief is not a theory. It is a living truth. I would as soon think of denying the reality of the sunlight Why argue with darkness...