Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night custodian of the building, he removed an entire 24-volume set of official British code books, took them over to his Italian contact, smoked and drank in nervous anxiety for seven hours while they were being photographed, and had them back safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit, "was a bad moment," but it had a telling effect on Fascist policy. After that. Benito Mussolini's breakfasts were made pleasanter by the fact that he could read reports from Whitehall to Rome often before British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond himself had seen them...
According to Dr. Hughes, Russian scientists admit openly that the U.S. is ahead in basic physics research. They look up to U.S. physicists and use translations of U.S. textbooks in advanced nuclear physics. They reprint 10,000 to 15,000 copies of the Physical Review in English. Almost all Russian scientists have to know English, says Hughes, to keep up with science in English-speaking countries. He thinks that he was invited to lecture in Russia because the Russians knew that "they weren't doing too much, and wanted to do more...
...those transfers admitted,, almost all come to Harvard the next fall. "The people we do admit stand head and shoulders above the rest." Cutler maintains, "From the present applications, we couldn't get fifty good transfers even if we tried...
...transfers it accepts This restriction will continue unless undergraduate housing becomes less crowded than it now is, or unless the size of the freshman class is reduced. There is much support for such a reduction: Zeph Stewart, Senior Tutor of Adams House, for example thinks that "we should admit fewer freshman in order to admit more transfers...
...transfer into Harvard. This increase will become especially noticeable with the coming vast expansion of the junior college system in the United States. Harvard will increasingly be forced to decide whether or not it is willing to decrease slightly the size of the entering freshman class in order to admit more of the highly qualified students who wish to transfer into this University...