Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...origin will wonder why there are no classes. Some few of these will have heard of Patriot's Day something as they have heard of Bastille Day; but to others the Lexington-Concord commemoration will be a complete novelty in the way of vacation alibis. To all, whether they admit it or not, the holiday will constitute a nuisance and an undesirable distraction...
...several thousand relief workers converged on the City Hall to demand of the City Welfare Board a 40% increase in relief allowances, continuation of CWA work, an end to the requirement that former CWA workers prove their need in order to get relief. When the Welfare Board did not admit a delegation of the protesters within five minutes, the crowd broke down the door of the Mayor's reception room where the Board was meeting. The Board members scampered out through other exits. It was just an incident, little more striking than what had occurred in other cities...
...Whiteside finally was cornered and admitted that he was thinking of the problem that surrounded the selection of the one passenger in the Varsity boat -- the lone member of the crew who doesn't work his way. To the ordinary observers the little coxswain is simply so much excess baggage, probably chosen because his weight is nearest the zero of any of the contenders. They admit that he's the only member of the crew who can see where he is going, and the only one who isn't looking at life backwards during a race. But that just about...
...moods, so that when the time is ripe I can catch their emotional fervor. Then they will ask me to be their dictator.' "Thrice did the mighty Caesar refuse the crown." Meantime newshawks got Braintrusters Taussig, Landis and Berle to deny knowing Dr. Wirt, got Braintruster Tugwell to admit that he had never even heard of him. Washington guessed that Dr. Wirt had talked to some of the brilliant and unknown youngsters who took themselves seriously and thereby fooled...
When six minutes had elapsed since the last heartbeat, sallow young Dr. Robert E. Cornish moved Lazarus II to a seesaw-like device called a teeterboard. There he opened one of the terrier's thigh veins to admit a saline solution saturated with oxygen and containing the heart stimulant adrenalin, the liver extract heparin and some canine blood from which the fibrin (coagulating substance) had been removed. While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge...