Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Ingersoll-who was last week sensationally reported by the British political tipsheet The Week to have been engaged in showing the British admiralty a complete outline of Japanese Naval plans stolen in Tokyo by a U. S. secret agent-Admiral Leahy was still reluctant to do more than admit that in London Captain Ingersoll had indeed discussed "tonnage of combatant ships...
...Federal Housing Administration insured the mortgages on 300,000 building units, 60% of all constructed in the U. S. But that was no housing boom and Franklin Roosevelt wants one to help get him out of his Recession. Avowed friend of Labor though he is, he was bound to admit that one factor in deterring home building is the high labor cost, and if the laborer would take a lower daily wage he would get a higher annual wage...
...Lawrence Edward Watkin; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). First-nighters at On Borrowed Time ached from applauding. Critics went back to their offices and wrote starry-eyed reviews. Speculators promptly invested in an eight-week buy. But here & there a cold fish issued coldly from the playhouse, willing to admit that it had been a pleasant enough evening, but nothing more. In any case, it had been all about a lovable old codger (Dudley Digges) who saved his little orphaned grandson from the clutches of a prim, pious, perfectly terrible maiden aunt by chasing imminent Death (known as Mr. Brink...
...lengthy article treating the work of the Supreme Court during the past two years, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, credits the Court with the courage to admit its errors and reverse itself rather than regard its decisions as unchangeable as does the British House of Lords...
President Conant proposed to extend Harvard's national scholarships, now financing 67 undergraduates from 15 States, to all parts of the U. S. and to the university's graduate schools. He also announced Harvard Law School beginning next fall would admit only those candidates "who appear to the committee in charge to have at least an even chance of passing the examinations...