Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief among U. S. Admirals at the conference were Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones (retired), Admiral William Veazie Pratt. Cultured, intelligent, Admiral Pratt ferried President Wilson to France in 1918. He was an expert adviser at the Washington Conference of 1921-22. Statesmen like him for his willingness to accept less from treaty makers than his more cautious brothers in arms...
...people had bought stock because it was my project. I got nothing out of it. I have lost a larger personal fortune in sticking with you. I have nothing besides my salary, and that is nothing to what I could make for my family if I was free to accept other offers...
...accepting the honorary presidency Ambassador Claudel wrote in part: "I was particularly touched by this offer and I know too well the services which your circle has rendered for many years past in the diffusion of French thought not to accept the honorary presidency. I beg you, therefore, to express to all the students affiliated with the Cercle Francais of Harvard my pleasure in associating my name with their efforts...
Comrade Sadathieraschvili claimed to know all about the notorious European counterfeit issue of more than $100,000 worth of U. S. $100 Federal Reserve notes, dated 1914 and picturing Benjamin Franklin (TIME, Feb. 3). (Polish banks last week became so alarmed that they refused to accept any U. S. banknotes' in denominations of $100 or larger.) With a wealth of circumstantial detail M. Sadathieraschvili of Georgia accused another Georgian, the Dictator of Soviet Russia, commonly called Josef Stalin, but named by his parents Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
...does the intelligent undergraduate accept this problem which in a single day envolves such a variety of news as greeted the breakfast table yesterday? There was the proposal by the President of the Carneigie Institute for a new national political party, the Liberal Party, to fight prohibition and other attacks on political and social liberty. Along side this dispatch, an account of a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to give the state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed...