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Word: admit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infirmary would not release the actual number of students confined to its 115 beds, but it did admit that "a great many people" have registered in the building since the wave of influenza began, a week ago. The Infirmary is almost full now, except for a few rooms left open for an emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Flu Germ Hits College, Yale | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

...adultery, handled with a delicacy and understanding that few U.S. writers have brought to the subject. Author Beck manages with exquisite taste to give dignity and beauty to the love of Ralph and Elissa even as it swamps both of them in guilt. Neither has the strength to admit the guilt and ask Harold Johnston to agree to a divorce. When Johnston takes Elissa to live in California, Kempner settles down to live out a passive life checkered only by a few inconclusive out-of-town liaisons. Only old Mrs. Johnston ever knows his secret, and Author Beck scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Any Small Town | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...committee meeting Thursday, Dean Bender, Dean Leighton, and Associate Dean Watson asked Summerall to admit as many freshmen as his department can handle with its limited equipment and personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summerall Permits 50 Additions to ROTC Unit | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

...stage. Robert Edmond Jones, who designed the original production, has proved that he still has a powerful command of light and form and color. He has mounted "The Green Pastures" in simple, direct colors as warm as the fable itself. He is frank to admit that his sets are made of painted canvas, and the result is completely disarming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1951 | See Source »

...measures to meet the war situation were soon forthcoming. On January 7, 1942, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to admit freshmen in February and July as well as in September, thus putting the College on a three-term year basis. The Summer School course was extended to 12 weeks and was put on a par with the fall and spring terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Mobilized Rapidly in '42, Was Naval Training Camp by '43 | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

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