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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the insolence to illustrate this announcement with three thugs in the act of reading TIME. One of them wears an ill-fitting suit, a sloppy hat, and has a cigaret drooping from his mouth. Another has a dented derby pulled down over his face. The third, I must admit, seems to be a rather high-grade thug. Do you think national advertisers will come running to your office, if TIME readers are really as you depict them? I read TIME and am no thug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Christ's Church not only must exist for all time, but must moreover, exist exactly as it was in the apostolic times, lest we are ready to admit either that Jesus Christ failed of His purpose or erred when He affirmed that the gates of perdition never shall prevail against His Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blasphemy | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Coolidge's refusal to be concrete, do not augur well for such a conclusion. Certain Latin delegates, however, have expressed themselves vehemently on the subject in published interviews. It can be hoped that the frankness with which they state their desires, and the willingness of the United States to admit the rights of free states even while she protects her citizens in them, will remove the stigma of guilty selfishness from this country in her future dealings with a rich and disorganized continent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HAVANA CONFERENCE | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

...business sceptic. The college, then, justifies its existence to a graduate, in presenting him with a complete education. It is mrely fortunate that the presence of these educated men has, even indirectly, such constructive results on society that it may convince future Croesuses who would otherwise never admit that it is the prerogative of every qualified man to enjoy pro se the fruits of education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips and to admit that he has been dealing from the bottom of a cold pack of lies. Against an almost bibulously romantic setting of wharves, iron balustrades, blackamoors and grandes dames, Actress Billie Dove softly, sweetly flutters her little wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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