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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the late start and bad weather conditions that have hampered all rowing this spring, Love is not pessimistic. But he does admit that the time trials to date are not as promising as those turned in at the same time last spring. However, he goes on to state that there is a keener spirit of competition between the first and second crews than was evident at any time last year. In fact, it is the second crew's persistence in beating the first boat that has necessitated a continued shifting of men from one boat to another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love Gets Freshman Heavy Crew into Shape for Initial Regatta With Tech | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...civil liberties, no such question is possible. Son of the builder of the Northern Pacific, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, friend of liberals big and little, Villard has more than most of the autobiographers to write about, if the criterion were staying power, number of fights, and refusal to admit defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tireless Liberal | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Acting on Student Council recommendations that capped a year and half of undergraduate agitation, the Housemasters voted on Monday to admit 10 to 12 associate members to each House as an experiment for next year and decided that "the quota of upperclassmen to be admitted be increased for the year 1939-40," Dean Hanford announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housemasters Vote To Adopt Associate Membership Plan For Out-of-House Men | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...that as it may, Harvard is most certainly not a peppy and spiritous land like the hills of Hanover; it is rather a lotus-land, the private domain of Indifference. Cantabridgians would shy in dismay from any public demonstration of simple school spirit. But secretly most of them admit that all is not well here, that there might be a more ideal attitude. And certainly they would not wish to see Dartmouth hide its spontaneous war-whoops under a hypocritical cloak of assumed indifference. It is not for Harvard men, but they see something vital and healthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO YOUR TEPEE | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

...public reaction against Lawrence the Hero had begun to set in. Already there were those who said his reputation had been a gigantic puff, that it was not worth the newspapers it had been written on. By last week, however, the world and his wife were willing to admit that Lawrence was what is known as a Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I.E. | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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