Word: admits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact engagements arising from the presence of one fraternity house in the same block as one sorority house are usually such light-o-love affairs that they have little or no effect on the student life of an institution. The trouble lies, as the Nebraskan will admit, in the fact that one engagement leads to another that once bitten does not always mean twice shy. "Many engagements are consummated merely because the girl wants the experience of being engaged"--so says the writer, thereby leaving the male volition entirely out of the question...
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...Admired by some, detested by others, discussed by all," such was and is the fate of his genius. Germans discovered it early and compared M. Claudel to Goethe. Britons are coming to admit, at last, that Paul Claudel, though he is often as obscure as Shakespeare could be, has also some of the bard's creative imagination. Frenchmen are still of two minds about Claudel. "Ha!" snorted once, reputedly, M. Clemenceau, "he writes like a holy ghost-when did France ever have such an Ambassador...
...admit ther's no expressing How revolting, how depressing, Are the crowds who gawp at your hand...
...Kersten, Dutch Reformed Fundamentalist, at Amsterdam: ". . . Church authorities are entirely justified in refusing to admit to confirmation or any of the Holy Sacraments, women who, by their attire and appearance, show that they are not yet ready to forsake the world and the lusts of the flesh...