Word: reject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
...reject a suggestion that an accountant be hired to make an independent audit of the University's books to see if the rise were justified...
...Romance Languages Department, however, is significantly different from other language departments. The Department is in charge of no less than four languages. A survey on the order of English 1, therefore, would be quite difficult to whip up since it would have to reject more material than other survey courses and be a good deal more general. That is partly why the Romance Languages and Literatures Department is leery of handling such a survey. The course would have a distinctly limited value for the concentrator...
...case of William Purcell Witcutt [TiME, Jan. 17] is interesting even from an academic point of view. It so happens that all truth is as rigid as 2 times 2 makes 4. If he is logical, rejecting the Roman Catholic faith on account of its "rigidity," he will have to deny all truth. The poor man will have to reject the fact that the world is round, that the common housefly usually has two wings-to cite only a couple of examples...
Although the sponsors do not believe that the Clubs' executive board will flatly reject the Saltonstall plan, they hope to forestall a decision until either the alumni are polled or until the delegates to the Harvard Clubs convention can have...