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Word: admit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's Yardling team has only three outstanding stars at this point, pitcher Andy Ward, outfielder-pitcher Bill Chauncey, and captain George MacDonald, the catcher. Coach Adolph Samborski, however, is the first to admit "that it's early in the season, and a lot of the boys are just getting started. We may have a few more stars later." With the exception of the three, the team is composed of good steady players, who can hit, field, and throw more than adequately, and who don't make big mistakes...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/29/1952 | See Source »

...Admit the Worst. In five months Pastor Robinson spoke to at least 400,000 students (he averaged four speeches a day). Indians followed him on trains, begging him to stay longer. Japanese Buddhist priests brought their friends to hear him. In Berlin, during the 1951 Youth Rally, he argued into the small hours with young Communists. Wherever he went in Asia he ran into Jim Crow in reverse-his color got him places where white Americans are scarcely tolerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Color Psychology | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...were amazed to find a Negro who wasn't a Communist."* He found Indians, Lebanese and Pakistanis surprisingly well informed about discrimination in the U.S. Communists peppered him with loaded questions. Sample: "But can you be President of this fine country of yours?" "By taking five minutes to admit the worst," says Robinson, "I could then spend an hour saying what you can do in a democracy, and showing them what an excellent expectancy there is for the next ten years in U.S. race relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Color Psychology | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

After a while it was announced that all delegation lists were closed; chairmen could admit no new delegates to their groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Arizonians | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Fads & Favoritism. Industrialists admit that the shortage is partly their fault. A spokesman for U.S. Steel estimated last week that 75% of the jobs for which new engineers are hired could be filled by bachelors of arts. It has become a fad in U.S. industry to hire an engineer for almost any position. Today a man can study civil engineering, then get a sudden hankering for aeronautics, and any one of the major aircraft companies will hire him. If he tires of his slide rule and looks for work as a salesman, he will get preference because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Engineer Shortage | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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