Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawyer Delson searched the New York City records farther back to September 1906 he would have found that Mable McCoy Irvin and Dr. E. E. Moore made an attempt to prove that New York State had a law that would admit of a trial marriage. The ceremony only required two witnesses and notary. We announced ourselves husband and wife. Notary affixed his seal and turned papers over to us. We consulted with friends and the recorder in the city of New York and they all said if this paper was filed at end of six months the marriage was legal...
...Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford. Last week New York Central reported that passenger revenue had climbed from $55,290,000 in 1935 to $62,500,000 in 1936, Pennsylvania that passenger business was up from $60,000,000 to $67,500,000. But neither was prepared to admit that the low fare increased their income, noting that prior to June, traffic was already on the rise...
...were oral. This procedure was not improved until 1845 when Horace Mann spurred the introduction of written examinations in Boston, whence they soon spread to all U. S. schools. In 1900 came another improvement when the College Entrance Examination Board was founded to give uniform examinations whose passage would admit students to all first-class colleges and universities. In the course of educational evolution, some advanced pedagogical theorists have now grown critical of this system, too. Last week they were pleased to find that their dissatisfaction had the attention of a Carnegie Foundation report...
...Argentine business" that bothered Mr. Mitchell is an unratified sanitary convention to replace the present embargo on Argentine meat, promulgated ostensibly to keep out foot & mouth disease. The sanitary convention would admit meat from uninfected Argentine districts instead of considering the whole country under a foot & mouth quarantine...
...Clayton that one of his friends had kissed her, he simply smiled. Elinor says she had plenty of opportunity to make him laugh on the wrong side of his face. Divorce in those days was social suicide, but discreet affairs were the rule. Elinor, though tempted, does not admit that she ever fell. Instead she took to writing, turned many a might-have-been into the wishfulfillment of words. "I drew, out of my vivid imagination, material to satisfy my own unfulfilled longing for romantic love." Her first novel, The Visits of Elizabeth, came out as a newspaper serial, made...