Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson will deliver the first of his three lectures, "Ordeal of the Mid-Century," at 8 p.m. tonight. The doors of Sanders will open at 7:15 to admit the public to the 1,150 general admission seats...
Math v. Fairy Tales. Last week the university had to admit that it had been the victim of one of the strangest academic hoaxes in history. Yates, it seemed, was not the real Yates at all, but 31-year-old Marvin Hewitt of Hempstead, N.Y. He had never gone beyond high school, had never been to Wooster or Ohio State, and the Christie Co. that recommended him simply did not exist. Why had he taken on another man's name and record? It was, said Hewitt, "a compulsion. I always wanted to teach...
...honorable observers have seen a network of fine, straight lines crisscrossing the planet. Others, just as competent, have seen nothing of the sort, and the canal system drawn by one man seldom resembles the system drawn by another. Few modern astronomers accept the canals unreservedly, but most of them admit that there is something extraordinary on the face of Mars. They yearn to know exactly what...
...Pere Marquette, the Nickel Plate, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and the Erie. The shaky Erie went into bankruptcy in 1938. As for the others, which have a total 6,485 miles of track compared to the Central's 10,714 miles, even Young's bitterest enemies admit that he has done a fine job on finances, though opinions differ on Young's ability as a practical operating railroader...
...quota of three women now enrolled in Littauer will not be substantially different next fall. The school has no maximum on the number of women it can admit, McCloskey said, but in almost all cases women applicants must have had previous public service experience. This requirement is due to a corporation ruling, intended to limit the female enrollment which provides that students must be Littauer fellows...