Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pearson, who had been much hurt by the civil bird war, heard the opposition through, defended his policies. He said that he was not ashamed to admit that he believes in cooperating with the sportsman. Wise hunters are more inter sted in conserving birds than are most other U. S. citizens, he believes...
Publicity attending the Van Rensselaer Lowestoft fraud suddenly launched upon newspapers and police stations disclosures of other art swindles from institutions and individuals previously too embarrassed to admit their gullibility. With some of these the slick team of Doran, Saunders & Cooke was directly connected, others were the work of rival tricksters...
...never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife seldom; when they brought him into Richmond to die, she came as quickly as she could, but too late...
...that Military and Naval Science are "snap" courses indulged in by only the dull and lazy. That is not true although I admit that, they are not as difficult or exacting as most of the courses given at Harvard. This is made necessary by the fact that many men can take them only as a fifth or extra course because of the requirement of concentration and distribution. Furthermore, it is evident that the Government wants for its, Reserves not scholars of the upper rank lists, but men of character and ability in other fields...
...whole book is brilliantly written despite the episodic character of the "footnotes." We may not have faith in the author's reasons for the supremacy of the East over occidental civilization, but we must admit that the book is easy, and altogether amusing, to read. For, after all, we need not take it seriously to enjoy...