Word: admited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stickler from Boston has a surly comment on "appendectomy" (TIME, Dec. 15). The dictionary does admit to usage appendicectomy, but- The surgeon who did one this morning said: "My first case is an appendectomy." The junior interne who assisted said: "I wish they would let me do something besides hold retractors for an appendectomy...
...cannot admit the power in the Senate to encroach upon the Executive functions by removal of a duly appointed executive officer under the guise of reconsideration of his nomination...
...effect of this Hoover broadside which so accurately depicted the issue took most of the wind out of the Senate's sails. There was of course much noisy denunciation of the President for his failure to obey the Senate but even Senator Walsh had to admit that the President had the Senate checkmated. Any further action by the Senate, he argued, would be only a "futile gesture" so long as President Hoover supported his appointees. As an indirect attack upon the three Power Commissioners a move of unlikely success was started to delete their salaries from forthcoming appropriation bills...
...dead tiger was a good tiger. Naturally, that view has passed, just as the dynasty of college students in whom rivalry surpassed reason has passed. I now find my little verse nearly as amusing and as pointless as the well-known break between the colleges. And that, you must admit, is very amusing and very, very pointless. Sincerely...
...damage done, Writer Allen sees but one face-saving way out of the muddle: to redefine the eligibility rules and admit all, military or civilians, who do great things...