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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housatoute, there were about ten people cheering for Harvard in the 150-pound regatta; it was a heart-breaker, and even the rabidest Eli cheerers had to admit it would have been nip and tuck at the finish except for those crabs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Athletic Teams Sweep to Victory in Annual Derby Day Festival as Nine Upsets Green, Crews Beat Cornell | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...long love dies slowly; and I would not admit, even to myself, that the "wrong" was entirely with TIME. I thought something had happened to me. It was as if a trusted yardstick appeared to shrink. So, I've checked myself by other reading. In the midst of TIME I pick up something else-anything else. A former impossibility has become a habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...rise is to become a foreman, he said, but that opportunity has greatly decreased. "The number of foremen has increased a little more than half as fast as the number of factories since the depression, while the means to launch into self-employment have almost vanished. Labor leaders frankly admit that unlimited opportunity for the workman is a thing of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walsh Sees More Industrial Unions, New Labor Party, Result of Lost Opportunity for Workers | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

...school to admit that it might be thinking of steamship fare as well as moral principles was rich Harvard, which announced that "if any senior member of the faculty happens to be in Germany about June 30 he will be designated as the Harvard delegate." The University of Pennsylvania, which had earlier accepted Gottingen's invitation, last week withdrew its acceptance when its representative changed his summer plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gottingen Bids | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

When kind Son Edwin died in 1904, his son Walter headed the Sun's publishing company at 32. In 1908 and 1909 the directors, who solemnly decided even the mechanical minutiae of the paper, agreed to admit display type and half-tone cuts to the advertising columns. In 1910, the Evening Sun was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Century of Suns | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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