Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When she found that I had used TIME she refused to accept the report, thus making mine a failure. Several others in the class received the same treatment. She said, "TIME is not a literary magazine, and therefore your report is not satisfactory...
Wendell Willkie is a self-confessed political "hybrid": he says he does not agree totally with either party. For that reason many a free-wheeling Democrat, many a Republican would like to see him President of the U. S. He was willing to accept the Republican nomination for the Presidency, but no one had figured out how to start him off.* With no party backing, he was a rootless flower in the political garden. Then, in Wall Street, an amateur political gardener announced he would do the necessary spadework...
Until last week, "Europe's breakfast table" sold her succulent abundance to two big customers: Britain took nearly 60%, Germany about 20%. Britain paid in sterling, Germany in credits, promises, and in blackmail (for instance, Germany forced Denmark to accept credits in coal, then, because Denmark was already oversupplied with British coal, charged storage on the undelivered coal). That Germany expected to get the Danish larder for nothing was indicated by what Danes were forced to accept for their goods-script money called Reichskreditkassen-scheine, carried by the invading troops...
...fact from the House Masters comes already the ominous rattle of backsliding. At least one has claimed that he will not accept the same number of upperclassmen this year that he did last. Such magisterial balking is based upon the natural desire of the Masters to populate their Houses with promising Freshmen in preference to "mediocre" upperclassmen. Sophomores--claim the Masters --will contribute more to a House over a three year period than will late-comers. Nevertheless President Lowell was interested in what the mature atmosphere of congenial House life could do to improve the value of a Harvard education...
Kevorkian was selected to fill the vacancy created when Boston resigned at University School to accept the Harvard post. It had been previously rumored that Kevorkian was slated to follow Boston to Cambridge as a line coach...