Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connor was heard first. He had to admit that he was indebted to Dame Rumor for his information. Said he: "I believe it in my own heart, though I have no way to prove it."He begged "a few days"to find proof...
Problem. For weeks Chancellor Marx tried to reorganize his Cabinet. As the price of obtaining Nationalist (Monarchist) support for the passage of the Experts' Plan legislation, the Chancellor had promised the Nationalists four seats in the Cabinet. He was, however, anxious to admit a certain number of Social Democrats (Socialists). But the Nationalists threw up their heads, planted their feet firmly on the ground, refused to collaborate with Socialists. At length, the Chancellor gave way. As a compromise between the Democrats (not Socialists), who were hostile to the Nationalists, he asked the latter to accept three instead of four seats...
Egypt's Premier, Saad Zaghlul Pasha, arrived at Alexandria on his return from Britain (TIME, Oct. 6 et seq). He was forced to admit that he had returned emptyhanded; that he had been able to achieve neither Egypt's nor the Sudan's complete independence from Great Britain...
...given when a new trial was ordered in the appeal from a death sentence of a youthful Chinese, Liang Sung Wau, who confessed to having killed, on Jan. 21, 1919, one Dr. Ben Sen Wu and two other members of the Chinese Educational Mission-is that no court should admit as competent evidence a confession obtained by "third degree" methods. In the case at bar, the defendant admitted his guilt after eleven almost sleepless days of questioning. Said a medical witness, testifying as to the torture Wau underwent: "If he were as sick as that and in as great pain...
...students learn to use Esperanto with the spontaneity of a language of natural growth, it may find a field throughout western education. But if, as seems more likely, it is restored to the limbo of things unwanted and unused, the progenitors of this chimera will have to admit that an a priori language, like an automat-man, is feasible only in a rationalistic heaven or a mechanistic Utopia...