Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several competent musicians admit its merit...
...deprived of the pleasure of working at a college level during their freshman year, to achieve the first steps of Parnassus which their preparatory schools ignored. Present educational conferences regularly allot one day to discussing the problem, and their conclusions are never sanguine. Any lowering of the barriers to admit men, however attractive and promising personally, who must be laboriously assisted through their freshman courses, could not be considered an educational reform...
...Russian defendants were called to the stand. A long list of charges was rattled off by a clerk. When Prosecutor Vyshinsky put the question, "Do you admit these charges?" each bowed his head and answered, "Priznayu...
...twisted hip hobbled forward to the witness stand. Again the clerk's voice droned on-carrying on military espionage under orders from his colleague, W. H. Thornton. . . . Helping wreck a power plant at the Zlatoust munitions factory. . . . Bribing Soviet citizens. ... At the end came the question, "Do you admit these charges...
...Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor of medicine in modern times, established the New York Infirmary. New York and Philadelphia medical schools would not admit Elizabeth Blackwell to study. But the Geneva (N. Y.) Medical School took her and she received her M. D. degree in 1849, causing much comment throughout the U. S. and Europe. While doing postgraduate obstetrical work in Paris she infected an eye, lost its sight. One of her associates in the New York Infirmary was Marie Zakrzewska who shortly went to Boston where in 1859 she founded the New England Hospital for Women & Children. Quakers supported...