Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspensions and failures of other circuses. Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's is still the world's greatest show. And for each of its 24 displays Dexter Fellows has a resounding, polysyllabic jawbreaker of commendation. With his famed adherence to literal truth, he makes some concessions: "I admit we have no gorilla. I will go further and say we have no giasticutos, no hyfandodge, no auk. But we have things just as protolithic, and more macrobiosian...
...mentioning this last fact, but it is quite pertinent. In a college the size of Harvard there are, of course, certain individuals who fall within the class of the undesirable. A real cross section, according to the very meaning of the term, must include members of this class and admit them to the Houses. But the Houses do not have room for all. Some one has to be left out. Hence undesirables will have to be admitted to the exclusion of the more acceptable who make the large majority. J. R. Divens...
...with the poster and bill-board. Although they are bitterly criticized, they really do express the American spirit. In these contributions we have struck upon something original which on country has over yet attempted. Today we either don't realize what we are accomplishing, or are ashamed to admit...
...when Appius and some little boys got their first sight of each other over the garden wall they called him an ape; Appius had a relapse to the jungle. After that Virginia's faith in her experiment became desperate; she began to see, though she would not admit, the tragedy that was coming...
Commonly accepted report was that a Boettcher friend had tossed $60,000 ransom across a railroad culvert near Denver. Banker-Father Claude K. Boettcher refused to admit that the ransom had been paid, though he did say that "all obligations were fulfilled...