Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scotland Yard was ready to admit that perhaps it was not the world's best police force when in 1932 what Britain called a crime wave brought London 23 murders, 13,800 burglaries. What shocked the new Commissioner, big-framed, bigger-voiced Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard, was the discovery that the Yard's crack men rose in rank not by ability but by seniority. He soon found out that the Vienna police force was not only the world's best but also the most educated. Every Viennese police lieutenant has a law degree. "Boom" Trenchard...
...possibility of confusing the word neutron and the name deuton. It is interesting indeed that American scientific workers do not have any such difficulty." Not every Briton favored the Rutherford suggestions. Wrote Henry Edward Armstrong, Ph. D., LL. D., D. Sc., F. R. S., retired chemistry professor, "Chemists cannot admit such fearsome wild fowl as diplogen...
...superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress as can be found in Hollywood today. One may object to her sensual lips (which is childish, or one may dislike her complacent sniggering, but one will have to admit her superiority to any other actress in the movies today. We say to---with the dramatic critics who claim that the stage is responsible for the geniuses of the movies. As a matter of fact we defy any fool to name any actor or actress on the stage who excels many...
...Professor Spargo to lapse into sociology and to give ingenious reasons, neatly a priori, for some of these legends. The scholars of the Renaissance, which was so baldly contemptuous of the mediaeval tradition, loved to interpret this legend weaving as mere monkery; more detachted observers are willing to admit that it is, above all, a tribute to the rich common life of the middle age. That cage, as Domenico Comparetti has carefully shown, understood and venerated the literary art of Virgil, and its educated men read and preserved the Virgilian manuscripts with a diligence not inferior...
...addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other end of a Government contract or any other contract, they would bear watching. This would be taken for granted and due credit, without reserve, be given them for tricky cleverness. No cry would be raised that...