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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar with the bloody history of Chicago's oldtime circulation wars, Publisher Thomason induced the Commissioner of Public Works to call a meeting of representatives of the three newspapers in City Hall. Angry words flew. Would the Tribune or Herex "move over" on the newsstands and admit the Times? They would not. Then, said Publisher Thomason, his newsboys would hawk his paper on corners near the newsstands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Emory v. Bertie & Click | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...photographs are studies in light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected by an underground level. A theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof garden are novel features of the construction, which is now going on between Fifth and Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth and Fiftieth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/24/1932 | See Source »

...safe side of the Rio Grande. There Mr. Overman offers to make Mr. Lahr a bull fighter, working him up to a great pitch of excitement by pointing out that all the women will want to make love to him. As to the dangers, Mr. Lahr has to admit that in his anxiety he had been "making a mountain out of a Dunhill." His courage rises even higher when Mr. Overman drags out a small, moony-eyed calf which he says will be Bullfighter Lahr's first victim. It is while the apish comedian is stamping around making chests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 21, 1932 | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

With the world skating on the thin ice of international finance as it has recently, however, everything threatens to be possible. Should Germany and Central Europe fail to maintain their credit and admit collapse, Hitler might well ride the wave to victory. For that which destroyed the old order would set him in its place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MORNING AFTER | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Napoleon Bonaparte." Napoleon Bonaparte probably never said any such thing. But he might have last week if he had been a U. S. youngster. Word was out that President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University was hunting six precocious, prodigious students, aged from 13 to 15, whom he would admit as freshmen next September (TIME, Feb. 22). President Scott cited a number of wunderkinder whom he would like to see matched under modern conditions. He announced he would get high school superintendents to ferret them out. But much to everybody's surprise it took no ferreting. By last week President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted--Precocity | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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