Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week on Harijan (Untouchables' Day) Gandhi announced what "it" was: a three-week fast to force all India's temples to admit Untouchables. He will begin on May 8. Doctors last week said he could not survive another fast. Said Gandhi, "I have no desire to die. . . . But I need for myself and my fellow-workers greater purity, application and dedication...
...Transcript, and four reporters." Last winter Mr. Alexander yielded his duties to his assistant. Anne L. Lawless, known to her colleagues as "Orchid Annie." Manhattan's social writing dean is an elderly gentleman with a walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron...
...France's Herriot in mid-Atlantic on their way to Washington, chilled conservative financiers with fear and revived the hopes of millions & millions of debt-ridden citizens who instantly imagined plenty of cheap money in their pockets. Reluctantly Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, a financial conservative, had to admit for the first time: "Yes, we're off the gold stand ard - for the time being. But - ." He decided to keep to himself his skepticism of the results...
Common wherever three-and five-gaited horses are bred, "nicking" is especially prevalent in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois. Humane societies have long agitated against it. Most breeders admit its cruelty, say they cannot sell their horses without...
...Three C's and a D and keep out of the newspapers"), its buildings, traditions, dreams-all these and more Author Weller has pasted up in his college scrapbook. Harvard readers may not like some of his pious preservations, may grow misty-eyed over some. Other readers will admit that whether or not Author Weller's Harvard characters have been gliding to any purpose, their performance, to non-Harvard eyes, has been impressive...