Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somehow, distance lends an educational enchantment to institutions. There seems to be difficulty in making Americans admit that the height of scholarship can be reached at home. Thirty or forty years ago, the home of the more important muses was generally considered to be in Germany. Today, the scene has changed, but it is still on the other side of the Atlantic. Instead of the Heidelberg scar, one must now have the Oxford accent. At present English influence on our educational methods is almost as potent as the German once was. We notice the trend, very obvious despite the modifications...
...referring to the reparations problems of Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria v. the Little Entente (i.e., Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania) as the "Oriental Issues"-a complete misnomer since not one of these countries is "oriental" and Bulgaria and in some districts Jugoslavia are the only ones where the people freely admit that they are "Balkan." (Call a Hungarian "You Balkan!" and his hackles will infallibly rise...
Often was this story repeated last December (TIME, Dec. 16) when William Fox turned over the management of his cinema business to his bankers and creditors, Halsey, Stuart & Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Last week, however, it appeared that Mr. Fox was not altogether willing to admit that the bond house and the utility company were in the cinema business. Some of Mr. Fox's stockholders seemed more gravely concerned than ever about their equities in the Fox companies. These stockholders, indeed, threatened a receivership and thereby produced not only a decline in Fox securities but a general...
...sports and business that makes the autumn a financial gleaning-time for thousands in America, and causes one game to overpower the rest so that they practically depend on its income for their existence: above all, they lacked the game of football, which even lovers of antiquity would admit to be much more exciting than a series of races...