Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even those who fail to appreciate him admit that Roy Harris has worked like one possessed. His first compositions were as crude as a schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports...
...Vagabond is frank to admit that he is not as well acquainted with the literary Franklin as he would like to be. He does know that his Autobiography, the Dogwood Papers and the Almanack are delightful. And it is indeed with pleasure that he goes to Harvard 6 tomorrow at ten to hear more about this thrifty, jolly, wise American...
...only did Germany thus admit the existence of a General Staff but the German Navy announced no less frankly that the two new pocket battleships now under construction will not be "pocket" (10,000 tons or under) at all, as provided by the Versailles Treaty, but thoroughgoing capital ships of 26,000 tons each. Also forbidden to have submarines, Germany has already launched a dozen of 250 tons each, has sent them out with its Baltic Fleet...
...courses beginning with the well-known 1a, 1c, 1d and continuing through many other courses which are designed primarily to do the thing which you intimate is not done; namely, to give the average undergraduates an opportunity to "round out their cultural education"; and later in the article you admit that the "Fine Arts authorities realize this final purpose. There are excellent courses in the Appreciation of Art and the History of Art, the Philosophy of Art and the Technical Methods...
...Division is quite willing to admit that improvements are possible and is striving constantly to carry them into effect...