Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another person she talked with on the Greenewalt story was the late Lammot du Pont, whose great hobby was wood chopping. During this discussion Liz got a long lecture on the theory and rewards of wood chopping. "I must admit," she says, "that I was still a bit skeptical about the rewards after it was over...
...late Colonel Parker, Headmaster Smith has spanned the whole history of the American progressive movement, and his own school has become one of the most famous of its kind in the U.S. But in an era plagued by so much educational flapdoodle, even conservative critics have had to admit that Smith represents progressivism at its best...
Like most painters of his school, Mathieu is his own worst advocate. He says he has "no interest in nature," and maintains that his art is what he calls "an orgasm of uncontrolled expression." But whether he chooses to admit the fact or not, Mathieu's paintings are as elaborately controlled as a professional golfer's game. Moreover they do reflect the real world around him, especially the technologically molded world of speed, smoke, glare, and vast perspectives...
...possibility of eventual ruin for the entire Plan and subsequent return of dormitory standards at best. By 1958 the first of a flood of post-depression babies will begin applying for admission, and many feel that if the College is to maintain its national character it will have to admit more than the present 4,500. Under such an enslaught the House system, already badly in need of additional space, could conceivably collapse...
...must admit to being somewhat horrified by Author Philip Wylie's "backpedaling" act as heralded in your March i issue. To an old believer in the subjective approach to life . . . this is akin to a discovery that Santa Claus is actually Malenkov in disguise . . . Having been powerfully impressed by the floodlight of logic that shone from his Generation of Vipers . . . one wonders how Wylie can abandon his brothers . . . PAUL W. PYLE Rochester...