Word: admits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swung a hillbilly jury away from Clarence Darrow and one John Thomas Scopes was fined $100 for teaching Evolution in contravention of the State law, Fundamentalists have been saying not only that Evolution is a "mere guess." but that scientists, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry...
...seems impossible that such cold blooded practices may be allowed for long in any civilised society, but the growing indifference to the rights of individuals at present noticeable in this country appears to admit of anything. The vigor with which the present offenders in the name of law and order are prosecuted may serve as an index to the extent that a respect for an order that is higher than law still remains in the United States...
...last week the double doors of the Senate Chamber opposite the Vice President's dais swung open to admit Alney Earle Chaffee. Slender, thin-haired, smiling behind his pince-nez, Mr. Chaffee is a Reading Clerk of the House. Vice President Curtis banged his gavel at Clerk Chaffee's appearance. Silence fell over the Senate. A Senate attendant announced in a loud voice: "Mr. President, a message from the House of Representatives...
Fourteen U. S. universities must now find space to hang 100 pictures apiece. The French donors frankly admit a shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered...
...together with other old Yale traditions, and that Senior social groups are being formed, based on Fraternity acquaintanceship and Fraternity voting strength, resulting in an entirely new Senior Society tradition. If this is to be the case, well and good: our point is that the Senior Societies should frankly admit it and not sail under discarded colors...