Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coach answered his critics in part early last month, at the annual varsity football banquet in Boston, when he decried the dearth of football material at the College. He urged the College to admit "some hard-nosed kids"--presumably of the caliber which would give him a winning football team after two losing years...
Jordan continued with the declaration that the College could admit better football players "without compromising scholastic standards." He claimed that "the football team is the window dressing for what Harvard is aiming at--to be tops in the educational field. He concluded his remarks by recommending that a means for obtaining better players be included in planning for the "Program for Harvard College," the Administration's huge fund drive...
...them sounded by 41-year-old Antonio Giolitti, a grandson of Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Said Antonio Giolitti: "In Poland and Hun gary the party has been best defended not by those who keep silent, but by those who openly admit the mistakes of the past ... If the men who now lead are incapable of changing, we must change them...
What Hopper has been able to do, he would never admit. He has opened a whole new chapter in American realism, painting a new world never before pictured. Where Copley created a world of men, Cole a world of nature, and Homer a world of struggle between the two. Hopper paints the raw, uneasy world that Americans have built on this land...
Truth Serum. In Pittsburgh, Motorist Francis Weiss admitted that he had downed "five or six cocktails," was acquitted of drunken driving after flabbergasted Judge Robert E. McCreary observed it was "only the second time I've heard a defendant admit to having more than a couple of beers...