Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two possible methods of acquainting students with the subject of Economics before their Sophomore year. One is to admit a greater number of qualified men to the course at the beginning of their college career; the other made possible by the fact that the course is conducted entirely in sections, is to start some of these sections at mid-years and admit Freshmen then. Either of these solutions would eliminate a great deal of uncertainty and lost time...
...protest against this implication is based on grounds which the War generation refuses to admit, but which the present college generation is sure to accept. Those grounds are that there is no historical basis for the exaltation of the Allied cause on the assumption that Germany was alone responsible for the War. It does not matter whether or not Germany can historically be accused for sole guilt for the actual outbreak of the War. Nothing can exonerate Germany from responsibility and any thought of whitewashing the Imperial government would be ludicrous. There is no question that the philosophy...
...Schleicher, the Machiavelli of modern German politics, had maneuvered party leaders and the President into an impasse from which the only exit was to make him Chancellor. Beginning three weeks ago with Adolf Hitler, the party leaders were forced to admit that none of them could find a majority in the Reichstag on which to base a Cabinet. This they could not do because President von Hindenburg demanded pledges in advance that they carry out his reactionary policies-policies which the 85-year-old President was advised by Defense Minister von Schleicher are essential to the safety of the Reich...
...aren't they perfectly right, these watchful citizenesses? Why should one admit to one's presence one who devours hardboiled capitalists with the same appetite and relish as once upon a time the ogre Minotaurus in Crete devoured luscious Greek maidens-a person who, in addition, is so vulgar as to oppose every war, except the inevitable one with his own wife? "Give heed, therefore, to the sage patriotic dear ladies and remember that the capitol of mighty Rome was at one time saved by the cackling of her faithful geese." When he went...
Come, now son, forget it! You are a man, and you have proved it. It takes a man to admit he is wrong. Good lands, son, all of us are wrong now and then; all of us make fools of ourselves and want to go put our heads in buckets...