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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra. I do not consider the life at all suitable for women, and I am not at all in favor of it. I conducted a mixed orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where 40% of the members were women, and it answered only fairly well. Women players, I admit, are more earnest and serious than men, but they are not so strong and their tone is not so good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indecent | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...cannot give you the exact figures," said the Finance Minister in high delight, "but I admit, if you wish, that the difference in favor of the bonds amounts to close to 100,000,000 francs. If I have been reproached with being too daring, my project's first results would seem to indicate that I took the right course and that, as I like to repeat, daring creates confidence. It is evident people with money to invest are eager to put themselves in condition to subscribe to the loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caillaux Victorious | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...concluded: "I declare that my Government, conscious of the obligations imposed by international law, is determined to comply with them, but in no way it shall admit that a Government of any nation may pretend to create a privileged situation for its nationals in the country, nor shall it easier accept any foreign interference contrary to the rights of sovereignty of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Insulted | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...Whiting's reception at the White House from what it believed to be an infallibly accurate source. In view, however, of Subscriber Leonard's letter, and of the testimony of Mr. Whiting's mother and of Mr. Whiting himself, there seems no choice but to admit that the source erred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...ones obtaining in capitalistic countries. Russia now has stock exchanges in operation and money which is quoted on these stock exchanges. Besides, the new policy has created a class of small landholders who have small sympathy for Communism and has turned the professional classes also against the Communists. " . . . I admit that Russia has evolved a magnificent propaganda machine and believe Russian propaganda will become more intense as the failure of Communism becomes more pronounced." ¶By a vote of 160 to 28 the Senate passed Premier Mussolini's Army Reform bill, under which the Chief of the Army General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: In Parliament | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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