Word: admits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Patrick Henry to blush with embarrassment. We licked the damn English once, now why the hell do we have to pal around? If we do go in again it will be a bad mistake. One man can keep us out. I think most of us are willing to admit now that Franklin D. Roosevelt is our greatest president. If he keeps us out of this war, he will go down in history as the greatest leader of men of all time. If he does...
...however, to take stock of how the battle can end. Utterly irreconcilable views and claims have been advanced, ranging all the way from a demand by some members of the Faculty that all ten assistant professors be reinstated, to a refusal on the part of some Administration officials to admit that there is anything wrong at all. There will obviously have to be a compromise if the Faculty and the Administration are to live at peace in the future...
...affairs was imminent; the phrase 'A war to end war' expressed that widely diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that revolution did not realize itself. The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind. It was too conservative of existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since, as more and more of us are beginning to realize now, there...
...rose up and bit the wolf. Having been chased hurry-scurry from Kiangsi Province right to the suburbs of Changsha, Hunan, the Chinese turned around and, with a fury they have never shown before, lashed the Japanese back and back. This week a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai had to admit that his country's forces had returned to positions they occupied when the drive started...
Miss Katherine Cornell, now starring in "No Time for Comedy" at the Wilbur, said yesterday that, although forced to admit in the play that she has no son in Harvard, she has known and liked Harvard men all her life. She hastened to add, however, that she did not marry...