Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large gap lies between spiritualism and psychic phenomena," says Mr. Dunworth. "We are not certain but that the latter is possible. Still, under this guise, much trickery is perpetrated. The difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...
...part of certain New York preachers to fill their churches and to cover themselves with glory, has made of religion the farce which many people delight in thinking it. Truly great preachers like Dr. Fosdick whose stand has been unique in its clarity and sincerity of purpose, though they admit the need of internal reform, refuse to consider the irregularities of church doctrine as absolute issues...
Captain T. J. J. See, Government mathematician, and astronomer at Mare Island, reveals to the world a discovery which beggars description. At last a scientist steps from his telescope and his nebular notes to admit that his labor has merely amounted to this: he has found Nothing. Yet even as his fellow scientists analyses the everythings which they have discovered, so he inspects his Nothing...
Rosendahl: "Although you admit you have made mistakes in judgment, you do not think that in the position we were in it would have been possible for you to make a mistake...
...healthy grape-globes. The harvest, it is saul, will be burned. With bitterness the proprietors have noted that the coming of the pest has, as usual, been ironically concurrent with a bumper wheat crop in Europe. Scientists, vainly laboring in the vintners' laboratories at Rheims, are forced to admit once more that the ultimate riddle of champagne has not been solved...