Word: admited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer of the naval establishment in making remarks which tend to embarrass the international relations of the Government. Such action on the part of an officer of your rank and length of service merits and receives the unqualified condemnation of the Navy Department and for their utterance, which you admit, you are hereby reprimanded." Observers thought they perceived the hand of the State Department in this outcome. A court-martial would inevitably have raised the unpleasant question: Did Mussolini...
...today, with all its psychological brutality and its inadequacies, as a standard of cultural measurement. When one considers the recent statement of the New York World that "examinations are a pretty sorry way to test knowledge and absurdly out of joint with the modern world," he is forced to admit that on the face of things the opinion might hold water...
...part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...
...apocryphal story (which Biographer Williams does not include) tells how Mrs. Besant tried to get Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they had had a great many famous people at Balliol but would have to draw the line somewhere. The president of Magdalen shook hands warmly, said he would be delighted, assured...
...accepted it somewhat grimly. Hostile or unreasoning authority has, they assert, arbitrarily set up artificial barriers, and these barriers must somehow be scaled. As victims of this authority tutors and pupils must necessarily develop the cunning and the manoeuvre that will luckily get them past the entrenchments. These tutors admit that it is only a temporary and superficial advantage which they covet for their clientele...