Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he returned to Harvard for a year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals silently watched the silent poet eat cake. Eliot seemed to enjoy flaunting his English ways: "I tend," said he, "to fall asleep in club armchairs, but I believe my brain works as well as ever, whatever that is, after I have...
...Court found that 1) Gaines was admittedly qualified to enter University of Missouri's Law School, and 2) Missouri could not shift to another State its constitutional duty to provide equal educational opportunities for all citizens, whatever their color. Reversing Missouri's courts, the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Missouri to admit Lloyd Gaines to its State university or give him legal training at Lincoln University...
...interested in making bottles and wished the whole patent muddle could be avoided. "A patent," said he, "is not a grant of right to use the thing, it is only a grant to exclude other people from using the same thing." Pressed by Senator William E. Borah to admit that Hartford-Empire in effect fixed milk bottle prices, Mr. Levis only admitted that certain companies, including his own, "led" prices...
...Steel official last week would admit to such plans. But the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio was so worried about its 1,600-man plant that it appealed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Four other Big Steel plants (in Monessen and New Castle, Pa., Elwood, Ind., Cambridge, Ohio) have lately closed...
General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, up to last week had not been consulted about the big new Rearmament plans. The law makes it his job to formulate military policy for his Commander-in-Chief. For weeks he has peeved in silence, loath to admit in public that he knows little more about the Administration's ideas for remaking the Army than ordinary newspaper readers. Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, is in much the same fix, with the difference that the Navy already had a big expansion program under way when...