Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vehemently denies that he is sick, Florida Rotarians and Realtors would have the world know that, in spite of the late unpleasantness, their state is still the earthly paradise. That there was a slight frolic of the elements, that rain drops fell, that breezes blew--all this the Floridians admit. But of disaster they will have naught. Photographs, presumably taken after the tempest, are spread over the country, and they show scenes in a peaceful southern clime, with slightly battered palms outlined gracefully against...
...Straton has assailed, him on two charges: that he is weak-minded; and that he is good-hearted. The first, being conventional, is easily dismissed. Mr. Mencken may ignore it, laugh it off, or, if he chooses, attempt to prove its falsity. In a treacherous mood he may even admit its truth. But the second attack will linger maliciously in the memory of the public for it gives rise to a faint distrust in Mr. Mencken's evil genius...
...diplomatic mist at Geneva, Switzerland, last week came a scheme to admit the U. S. to the World Court. A conference of the Court Adherent Powers decided to accept the five Senate reservations in toto, with a counter reservation on No. IV that "the signatory states acting together with at least a two-thirds majority should possess a corresponding right to withdraw their acceptance of the special conditions attached by the United States"; and with the suggestion than an "understanding" on No. V could be reached after the U. S. was in the Court. It is expected that...
...post graduate work in Great Britain, too, demands much higher qualifications than does the same quality of work here. We do not admit men merely on the basis of some degree received in an ordinary academic coarse, but we demand students who by theses or other similar evidence have shown that they possess originality as well as mere parrotlike memory...
...very size of the work which is being done in educating the hordes of young men and women who come yearly to the schools, colleges, and universities of this country blends many to its effectiveness. Yet in a country whose philosophy is essentially pragmatic, one dare not admit that the work of the pioneers in education has been in any sense a tremendous failure. They gave to those who were to follow them the only medium through which education of any kind can thrive freedom. What has been done through that medium since their time is the fault or virtue...