Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Providence coach Tom Eccelson is the first to admit this difference. "We were playing over our heads against Harvard," he said last night. "I only hope we can keep it close tonight. I doubt if Harvard was in good enough condition last time...
With a feeling of happy anticipation and a sigh of relief I read in yesterday's CRIMSON, "Coming soon! The CRIMSON Telephone Directory." I admit it. I have been beaten. What small amount of sales resistance was present at the beginning of the term has long since vanished. It cracked each time I pored through the Boston Directory only to find that the phone was listed in whatever-is-his-roommate's name. It crumbled each time I called Weld Information after hours...
...present three relevant statements of belief by and for a group which should be most especially concerned with such matters--the university community. The contemporary college student seldom accedes to any firmly established ideology. He is taught that all ideologies have weaknesses and fallacies, and is reluctant to admit those tendencies in himself which demand belief at this price. Under the influence of the academic he maintains that dishonesty is too much to pay for a credo and before abandoning his scruples about such self-deception he allows separation in time and space to remove his institutional superego...
...plagued Navy missile men up to now has been how to determine exactly and continuously where the ship is located on the earth's surface. At 1,500-mile range, such positioning becomes tremendously important to the missile's accuracy. Even under ideal launching conditions, missile men admit an intermediate missile is unlikely to hit closer than a quarter of a mile from the bull's-eye. If determinations of the target's direction and the ship's position are slightly off, the error can be disastrously larger. What makes the problem particularly difficult...
Many railroads are frank to admit that they are out to dominate piggybacking, argue that it is a matter of economic necessity. From 1939 to 1954, the railroads' share of intercity freight slumped from 63% to less than 50%, while the truckers' share jumped from 10% to 19%. Now, with the help of piggybacking, the roads hope to win back lost ground. Last year truck business slipped to 17.7%, while railroads just about held their own. Says Southern Pacific's Assistant General Freight Agent Ray F. Robinson: "Ninetynine percent of our piggyback business is business we never...