Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls-bless their sweet hearts-are all good girls! Not a one in the whole town would show herself in tights and false hair. So's not to disappoint anyone I just named this little dog 'Lady Godiva,' and I guess you'll admit she rode the way God made her, except I scrubbed her first...
...house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless widow Raquel, marries Berta to become a father, becomes instead the jealously guarded child of both women. A self-made man marries the daughter of an impoverished business acquaintance; she eventually falls in love with him, he will never admit that he loves her. But when she dies, he kills himself...
When accounts of the "You-Go-And-Fry" dinner were later read to the Senate by a playful Democrat, Vice President Curtis in his high chair grinned sheepishly, rubbed his hand over his red face. Mrs. Pratt said: "I'll admit the joke was on me." Secretary Davis, fresh from his Pennsylvania campaign for the Senate where he learned that a politician must be ready to praise anybody, dead or alive, on a moment's notice, felt his good nature had been imposed upon. The New York World spoke of a "sleazy kind of fawning" by public...
...college which desires to promote the study of language by larger groups of secondary students and also to make the most of those who enter college with a high degree of attainment in this field may need to arrange two courses in the freshman year or to admit especially able entering students into a more advanced course...
...analysis, emphasize the value of the course as a unit at the expense of the knowledge gleaned from the course. The whole fabrication of American education is built on the fallacy of the written examination as a safe and sound criterion of ability. Even the most conscientious assistant will admit that the phenomenon of decreasing returns applies to correcting test papers. The section man is mentally alert to judge the first paper with the best of his critical ability; by the twentieth his senses are dulled and there is little correlation with any of the other papers he has marked...