Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natives refuse to admit that Pele, goddess of volcanoes, will take human life, although she may destroy human habitation. The legend says that, jilted by a mortal lover, she slew him and then was so mortified she made a vow never to do such a thing again. Herds of cattle that have climbed naturally to a knoll or ridge to escape lava, are said to have been "spared" by Pele, who sent her wrath around them. A man whose legs were clipped off by a hot boulder was said, after his demise, to have "stumbled into a crevice...
...former business manager being extremely enthusiastic over the value of a competition such as will start next week. "I consider it," he said, "the best practical business experience which a man can possibly have while at college. Anyone who has graduated from college and been in business since, will admit that, unless a man is working his way through college in some business concern, the CRIMSON is the best possible thing in this line that the University has to offer...
...rather conclusively that even in those very early times there was a cultural connection, shown by a comparison and study of the painted ceramics which have been discovered, between China, Southern Russia and the Messopotamian countries. Therefore, although it may be difficult to trace these connections later, we must admit that they existed many centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, possibly as early as 3,000 B. C. The painted ceramics of Northern China are, by the way, about the best which have been found anywhere...
...will admit that this has a bit of the esotericism of T. S. Eliot, Merely pose, I assure you. I am much better at bridge. Now take the new books for sale on all and sundry stands in which are not alone the new rules, but even the newest comments by Work and Whitehead and all the other gentlemen of the green plush. For it seems that when one cuts high does win and that you just must know or the Ladies' Whist and Euchre (prize a doily isn't it just dear) will kick you down the back stairs...
Though as Joe Cooke has so often said, "I may be wrong." At least I do admit than I am sometimes wrong. For it was only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...