Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even sober WTalter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune, whose Publisher Ogden Reid & wife were to be seen in the Press stand, was tickled by Keynoter Dickinson: "The historians admit," wrote he, "that even Abraham Lincoln made a few mistakes, but if the Senator's story is to be believed Herbert Hoover has been invincibly right from start to> finish. Such infallibility has not been known on earth, and when Mr. Hoover has his speech called to his attention by one of his secretaries he will feel either that the speech is nonsense or that the office of President...
...alarmed. Next day was Corpus Christi. He marched in the religious procession (first in Berlin since the War) to the Cathedral of St. Hedwig. Strengthened by this, he buttonholed President von Hindenburg for four hours and 45 minutes three days later, tried to persuade his old patron not to admit the Fascists to a share in the Government until after the Lausanne conference in June. Meanwhile, the Chancellor planned a new legislative program to break up big Junkers' estates to provide homes for the jobless and to increase taxes by another emergency decree...
...looking for information. He was well satisfied with the lane from West Africa to Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
...Yale hopes to admit undergraduates free to all varsity contests. Classes will be rearranged to allow more time for intramural sport, so that the athletic opportunities of the average middleweight undergraduate will be greatly increased...
...inject life into our ailing economic order, we cannot make it endure for long unless we can bring about a wiser, more equitable distribution of the national income. . . . The country demands bold persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach...