Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ignore all this. While a certain formality in dress and behavior is to be preferred, even in the summer time, the true Harvard man will admit to no barriers of custom or geography. Although he does not like to see his University mistaken for a country club, he too enjoys his modest amusements. All that you need for acceptance into his community is an inquiring mind intelligently applied...
...Westminster College in Cochran ville, Pa. to learn more about Fordham. Since there is no college of any sort at Cochranville, the letter ended up at the nearest Westminster, in New Wilmington, Pa. Yes, the college said, Henry Fordham had once applied for admission, "but we didn't admit him because of the poor quality of the work represented by his credits." Fordham's documents, complete with a most convincing seal, had nothing to do with that Westminster College...
...learns that he has a Communist past? The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk. The paper said that it lost confidence in Shafer after a subpoena from Senate investigators prompted him to admit party membership in 1940-41 and again in 1946-48, before he joined the Times. Quick to protest was the Newspaper Guild. Grounds for its protest : the dismissal was without "good and sufficient cause" and thus a violation of its contract with the Times...
...Armed Forces could take an example from Great Britain. In that country, each service realizes that the other is important, but the Army and the Navy both frankly and sensibly admit that the Air Force is more important than either of them...
...blacklisted solely for his wife's views. The House accepted his explanation. Britain was learning, only five years after Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean took off for Russia, that security in the face of Communism is a problem more complicated than it had once been ready to admit...