Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Stanhope, the Cabinet's First Commissioner of Works, was understood to hint that His Majesty's Government think they may soon have to impose highly unpopular Army conscription when he guardedly told Their Lordships. "I am bound to admit that under present conditions of service the volunteer system is obviously in grave danger...
...Thomas Inskip, the pompous new Secretary for Coordination of Defense (TIME, March 23), reported on British Rearmament in an emotional rather than factual vein, "I have never believed and refuse to believe that war is inevitable," affirmed Sir Thomas. "I am not going to admit the British Navy has met an opponent which cannot be mastered.... It is suggested that the growth of air power has destroyed our historic security as an island. That is only a fraction of the truth. . . . We have a long start over anyone who is ill-advised enough to meddle with our freedom...
...Moscow Comintern that Barcelona, the great stronghold of Spanish Radicalism, "must be saved at any cost, even if it means French intervention in a form which would provoke war with Germany, and irrespective of the fate of Madrid?' It was even said in Spain that Joseph Stalin might admit to his Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a new Soviet Socialist Republic to consist of the Spanish provinces not yet in White hands and having Barcelona as its capital...
...preacher of the ordination sermon, Rev. George Dorey of Regina, reminded his listeners that the cause of Lydia Gruchy had been championed by no less a churchman than the late Moderator Edmund Henry Oliver of the United Church. The Church's General Council finally voted to admit women to the ministry last September...
...most glaring discrepancies in modern education is the relative lightness of school and college study as compared with the drudgery of graduate work. Most undergraduates admit that their full powers are not called into play except during the short weeks immediately previous to examinations. An even greater waste is apparent in the average man's twelve years of school spent in preparing for four such elementary courses as Chemistry A, French 2, Mathematics A, and Biology D. The result of this disregard for economy of time is to prevent a man from earning a substantial income until, on the average...