Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never understood why you liked Americans so much," wrote one Dutch woman to a friend in the U.S. "To me, their insistence on the story of the boy with his finger in the dike always seemed indicative of their lack of understanding. I admit now I was totally wrong. Here they were with their trucks and helicopters, picking up people, bringing them in, and going right out on another mission. What struck me was that their hearts were in it, just as our Dutch hearts were." Offers of aid to The Netherlands had poured in from far away. A factory...
Neither Fred C. Sawyer '56 nor Robert C. Richardson '56 would admit how long they had been perfecting their new method for whipping cyclists into shape. But their reasoning seems to run that undesirable hills would not have to be climbed if the trainee contented himself with spinning his bicycle's wheels...
...sure you're not sick?" "No," replied Mary, "and I should know because I'm a doctor." "Well then," returned Tarah, "someone in your party is sick. That person next to you is your patient, and you're worried about her recovery. Will you not have the sincerity to admit it?" The woman next to Mary rose: "No, it isn't true. As a matter of fact, I'm a doctor myself...
...ground is respect for conviction, based upon faith and honest intellectual labor. It is in no way affected by wars, whether cold or hot, because such convictions, operative in the realm of thought and discussion, never can constitute a clear and present danger. Even if one were willing to admit that the search for truth can be dangerous in the short run--and some good people think so--it can never be in the long run. "The truth will make you free...
Fortunately, Harvard professors have always been allowed to pursue truth wherever it might lead. And they at least have always been humble enough to admit the chase can never end. A dogmatic truth, be it imposed by alumni pressure or any other means, would change the University's goal from education to indoctrination. To channel the search for truth would be to dry up the sources of the University's greatness...