Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, Cambridge is important to the United States," officials said, "but we felt we would again more by admitting the Russians to educational communities than by excluding them." City Manager John J. Curry had expresses amazement that the State Department would admit Russians to a "number one target like Cambridge...
...embarrassing family scandal before Marshal Tito got back from his grand tour of Asia. The trial was said to be public, but the 100 seats in the dingy old courtroom were parceled out to hand-picked Communists, to the defendants' wives, and the lawyers. The court would not admit Djilas' aged mother, on the ground that the trial might prove too much of a strain for her. Nor would the court admit any of the 14 Western correspondents stationed in Belgrade; it was the publication of interviews with Djilas and Dedijer (in the Times of London...
...Collector Freer (who died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...
...however, the University has failed to produce those upheavals which lend themselves to the turgid word and the stuffy phrase. One could, perhaps, be pompous about the No Liquor at Football Games rule; we have been, as a matter of fact. But it is easier at this point to admit candidly that 1954-55 has been a year of inconsequentialities and review it with that in mind...
Yale has close to 50 women enrolled in its Divinity School this year, considerably more per class than the eight Harvard plans to admit this fall...