Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question was an unsanctioned act of a minor officer of the paper. If such methods are to be pursued consistently, particularly by a paper that stands in the public mind for the Good Government Association, those who believe that politicians can be gentlemen as well, will be forced to admit that civil politics in the United States is well nigh incurable...
...foreign postoffices on Chinese soil the delegates here have taken more definite action. They have agreed to abolish, them, and have only temporarily postponed naming the date after which China will administer all postoffices within her borders. Thirty or forty years ago, as the Chinese themselves admit, the Chinese methods of communication were inadequate and unsatisfactory. Now, however, the Chinese postal system is so good that there is no reason for the existence of postoffices under foreign control. More than that, these foreign postoffices made smuggling easy. The only conditions which the Powers here make to the abolition of them...
...preferences recognized as just by the graduate and undergraduate committee who drew up the rules eleven years ago, a graduate has not more than one chance in thirty of getting any of these seats. The total number of seats distributed on preferences seems large, but almost any graduate will admit that in each individual case these preferences are just and should be granted...
...nominate for honorary leter-men Messrs. Brown and Benet, "line men". (We admit that it is somewhat questionable whether they should be given "B's", "H's", or "Y's". But, of course no one would make the mistake of giving Mr. Benet an "H" which considerably simplifies the problem...
...from the taint of being "highbrow" which is so often associated with the name of Harvard, and a well-filled house received with apparent enjoyment the oft repeated walling of "mamma", who is a "sentimental hypochrondiac". The first act is slow, the second good, the third excellent. If we admit that a prize play may have acts of such unequal strength, undoubtedly this is the proper sequence in which to place them...