Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service on Tuesday evening, which will come at 8.50 o'clock, will be open only to members of the University and Radcliffe. Thursday's evening service will, however, be open to the public. In order to admit all who wish to attend the services, those who are present at one of the Tuesday services have been requested not to attend the repetition of the service on Thursday evening...
...frank to admit I expected a touchdown and anticipated a comeback on the part of the Blue athletes after their defeat by Princeton. . . . Harvard, however, braced and staged one of the most magnificent rallies I have ever seen on a football field."--Louis A. Young, Pennsylvania coach...
...City Council was about to approve the measure, one Councilor Jack Salmon, "a breezy fish salesman," arose and denounced Character Barkis as "a silly old pup . . . a drunken rascal with a red nose." Forthwith one Alderman Goode vouched for Barkis' honesty and did not admit his habitual drunkenness; and the deliberations of the Council became audible in the next room...
...British came like one banker coming to meet another. There was very little question of capacity to pay. The British were too proud to admit that they might be unable to pay any debt they had contracted. The negotiations were chiefly a matter of arranging suitable terms. The Belgians came, poof and little, but proud. They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain...
...stigmatized the plot almost without regard to party lines. Said II Tribuno, usually markedly antiFascist: The attempt rouses not only among the Fascisti but among all Italians the greatest indignation. Whatever party one may belong to, whatever reasons one may have to oppose the present Government, one must admit Mussolini is something more than a political symbol...