Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Toepfer reported, veterans will pries almost one third of the class. The Law School intends to admit about 200 veterans, as compared to 110 admitted last year. Of this year's probable total of 200, 168 have already been admitted, Toepfer said...
...class that will start in September, however, will be cut from 525 to 500 in order to stop what Toepfer calls "the creeping growth of the Law School." The faculty of the Law School has decided that 500 is about the greatest number of students it can admit and still retain optimum efficiency...
Toepfer also reported that most of the men who are going to be admitted have been accepted already. "In another week our class will be formed," he said. The Law School may admit up to 650 applicants, including the 200 veterans, but a certain fraction of these usually withdraws before September...
...decline of big-name bands, Sinatra's type of tune seemed to drop out too. In 1942 Sinatra signed with Columbia Records, whose artist and repertory chief is bearded Mitch Miller (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953). Says Frankie: "Came the age of Miller-ism. Mind you, I'll admit he's a great musician, but I can't go along with him. Instead of a real interest in the lyrics or the melody, all Miller cared about was gimmicks. One day he said to me: 'Frank, we're going to make a record with...
...sensitive, catching in flutter of light and shade the fluttering mood of grace and despair. As the priest, Actor Claude Laydu wears a beautiful mask of spirituality but seems to have no idea how to suggest what is going on beneath the mask; though it is only fair to admit that few actors could have done better with so exacting a part. The main trouble with the picture is its failure to transmute the superb language of the book into equivalent images. Beautiful but difficult quotations keep appearing through the blur of pictures, like old lines through a scratchy palimpsest...