Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastern colleges should find little comfort in Mr. Tunis's article, for they must admit both the charges to a certain degree. Although most eastern universities possess many courses of undeniably modern scope, the general tendency is to look into the past with such absorption as to be blinded to its relation with the present. No denial of the accusation of materialism is conceivable in face of the huge construction work at Harvard and Yale and its contagious effect on the attitude of smaller colleges. But in general, it may be said, that their position is far less discouraging than...
Face the Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
Critic Mumford was followed by Henry Wright, foremost U. S. authority on housing conditions, who astonished many by saying that apartments on semi-fashionable Riverside Drive are "slums or potential slums." Reason: They admit light only to the front of the building...
Dyson (laughing): I am perfectly willing to admit that...
...Helene Clement, whom he, to his distaste, infatuates. Helene, a green girl helpless, appeals to older, infinitely wiser Colette. She does her woman's best to forward the affair. But the affair won't go forward: it is Colette whom Vial loves. She knows it, will not admit it until there is nothing else to do. After two summers of perfect prenuptial flying, Vial goes back to his Paris shop, apparently to stay. Helene Clement will see to that. Colette takes Vial's departure a little hard. "I don't sing Vial's praises...