Word: admited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Washington, voted to postpone formal action until the Sesquicentennial Association could be polled on the issue. Declared Dr. Goodwin afterwards: "If I were giving a birthday party to celebrate the birth of the nation, I would not have surgical instruments to accompany the cake. I do not admit, as suggested, that to omit the surrender scene would be like presenting the play Hamlet with Hamlet left out. . . . I do not think General Grant would desire to have the surrender at Appomattox repeated in a scene. He was too generous. Nor do I think George Washington would want...
...With thoughts of independence uppermost in your minds, economics and other subjects must take a secondary place. The proposal to delay the decision 15, 20, or 30 years is not a plan; it is a subterfuge . . . a graveyard policy. Those opposed to independence should have the courage to admit it. Frankness may furnish information for which crocodile tears are no substitute. You are willing to pay the high cost of freedom and you will by orderly peaceful persuasion convince Americans of the justice of your cause...
...bunks and locker space. Ordinarily two watches of men will be carried, two men sharing a bunk in turn to save weight. (Normal flight crew of the Akron: eleven officers & 8 men plus pilots of planes carried aboard.) An innovation on dirigibles: each room has a floor register to admit hot air from the engine rooms...
...Hernekin Baptist's" good words are all for heathendom. But he regards heathen nature (especially female) with a civilized and curious eye, makes much of natural facts not usually dwelt upon so lovingly. Publishers Cape & Smith will not divulge Author "Baptist's" real name but they admit he is English, assert he is "very famous...
Last week the Government settled its case against Corn Products. The company admitted "technical guilt," was fined $5,000. Thereupon many a Prohibition student wondered how many more U. S. business concerns would have to admit "technical guilt" if like charges were brought against them. Common is the assumption that distributors of malt & hops, makers of bottles, flasks, corks and alcohol depend for much of their trade on individuals and groups who break the Prohibition Amendment...