Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birmingham. Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent "degenerate religious thought," one a "refusal to admit the truth of man's evolution from lower forms of life," the other a "belief that spiritual presence can be attached to, or reside in, inanimate objects...
...occupying rooms they had paid for was illegal. As a result, the class of '32 was unexpectedly compelled to act as host for nearly a hundred uninvited guests. The present graduating class, therefore, may have remembered the disaster of their predecessors in caps and gowns, when they agreed to admit their younger fellows to the fold. This plan is noteworthy in that it disposes of an embarrassing situation to the satisfaction of both parties. Under the new plan, whereby only Seniors and their guests may have refreshments, the Committee is enabled to entertain the undergraduates without additional expense...
...KAWAKAMI is the Washington correspondent of Tokyo's great "Hochi Shimbun." The West knows him as Japan's solitary boast in the art of effective propaganda, the only member of her voluble corps of sooth-sayers clever enough to admit that the Shanghai intervention was a grave and witless blunder which could not intelligently be defended. Further, he tells why the Japanese have made themselves unpopular in Manchoukuo, and spoofs loudly at the idea that the new state was founded on the happy will of thirty million Manchurians. All this is too naive for Mr. Kawakami, who builds...
...remarkable memory for oral evidence. Yet he can be blandly forgetful when out to trip a witness. Persistent, he will ask a witness the same question in 20 different forms until he gets an answer. Because he dogged Mr. Morgan about his income taxes until that witness had to admit that he knew nothing about them, Senator Glass complained bitterly that Counsel Pecora was "badgering" Banker Morgan. Pecora's court manner is quiet, almost casual. Just when a witness least expects it, Lawyer Pecora will drop him into a trap. No loud bulldozer, he can be crisply sarcastic. Last...
Author Romains' method is reminiscent of John Dos Passos' (The 42nd, Parallel; 1919) and Aldous Huxley's (Point Counter Point), but he refuses to admit that they have influenced him: "I salute these experiments; I admire them on occasion. . . . But I salute them as younger comrades, and with some sense of priority." Though he has been actually working on Men of Good Will for only twelve years, he has been preparing for it since 1905. Of the 65-odd characters introduced in this first volume, few are related, many do not even meet. As each chapter carries...