Word: admittede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The British Admiralty and Air Ministry admitted casualties aboard the 9,100-ton Southampton, the cruiser Edinburgh and the destroyer Mohawk, and said an admiral's barge and a light tender were sunk by the Nazi bombs.
> Excluded last month by hypercautious Presidential police, tourists again were admitted to the White House grounds (but not into the showrooms of the White House, where gawkers used to wander at will).
>Industrious, photo-dramatic, cheek-puffing, eyebrow-waving Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, was generally considered the best mayor of the world's largest city. Last week even his old rival, Jimmy Walker, admitted it.
Drunk with the new wine, success, the Chinese tried another daring thrust. In broad daylight eight bombers flew 450 miles from Chungking to Hankow, where they bombed the Japanese air base. They claimed to have destroyed 50 out of 180 Japanese planes, to have returned intact. Japanese admitted that bombs...
Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to...