Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grahame's Mole. He has appeared in eight 10,000-word books (10 million copies), five Noddy annuals, four strip books, 20 small books, been translated into everything from Swahili to Tamil to Hebrew. Last week, after he made his debut on the stage, London critics had to admit that Noddy in Toyland...
...extended time, receive their blue-books, would disturb already-writing scientists in the same room. But there is no reason why a science student wouldn't benefit as much as his neighbor from seeing his exam in slightly more relaxed surroundings. And it would always be possible to admit the non-scientists to be admitted to the room 15 minutes earlier, with the examination itself starting after the scientists file in, pick up their papers and nervously start to work, perhaps even over-looking a question...
Virgo. A pall will settle over the University when the first crop of Advanced-Standees flunk out on placement tests. "We made a few mistakes," Dean Bundy will admit. "Those little beggars can be deceptive...
...Devil] cannot turn us from prayer by means of vain thoughts and sinful ideas, then he . . . fills us with beautiful ideas, so that one way or another he may lure us away from prayer, which is a thing he cannot bear . . . [My teacher] taught me . . . not to admit during times of prayer even the most lofty of spiritual thoughts. And if I saw that, in the course of the day, time had been spent more in improving thought and talk than in the actual hidden prayer of the heart, then I was to think of it as a loss...
...others are pushing their own specials to meet the competition. Says one Hartford insurance executive: "We are competing with General Motors and Westinghouse for the average man's dollar, and we admit the average man cannot afford the kind of insurance coverage that he needs." The trend has shaken the insurance business to its deep and respectable foundations. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (No. 11 in the U.S.) has vigorously opposed the specials. In Life Insurance Courant, New York Underwriter Halsey D. Josephson complains: "The surrender . . . to the expedient of issuing specials . . . may very well be the beginning...