Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only unsurmountable difficulty is the uneveness of the right margin. It seems extremely doubtful whether a machine can be invented which will produce even right margins in manuscript without a great loss of time. I think, however, that we will come to accept a slight unevenness in the right margin in the course of time...
...what he thought with no fear of dismissal, and could give a more comprehensive view of what was going on in all the factories. This right of representation is no very radical plat-form; it is not only-justified but inevitable. An employer is in no way compelled to accept the advice offered, provided he has an open shop. Refusing this right at this time of strained relations is showing a great lack of foresight...
Leave of absence has been granted by the University to Professor George C. Whipple of the Engineering School to enable him to accept an appointment as Director of the Division of Sanitation in the Bureau of Hygiene and Public Health of the League of Red Cross Societies, word of which reached here from Washington yesterday...
...that is not all. The railroads would be bought for their "actual value," whatever that may mean. Labor, according to Mr. Plumb, would not accept the present capitalization of the roads as a true statement of their worth. But how would the true worth be estimated? The courts have ruled that "just compensation" means payment at market value; Mr. Plumb says it does not--a bold assertion, indeed. Endless confusion and too many chances for manipulation are involved in determining this issue...
...Plumb, your plan will not work. The country is not yet, and may it never be, reduced to the state where it is forced to accept such a settlement of its railroad problem...