Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formally refuse to admit the propositions of Hitler for one reason only: I came to London to have recorded a violation of the Locarno Treaty. I shall not agree to discuss anything else than that, and, if necessary, I shall leave London and even the Council...
...President Eliot once said that the appreciation of music was not characteristic of the type of evolved Puritan usually to be found in the Harvard Corporation. If we admit that the evolution has been slow, it is nevertheless true that the Pierian Sodality, which 100 years ago had to rely wholly for its inspiration from those ancient springs its name was taken from, has shown us that music, both instrumental and choral has won a recognized place in University life. It is therefore fitting" Mr. Greene concluded, "that the Sodality and the Glee Club should have an active part...
...facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet-U. S. situation, bleated in Moscow: "The question of Communist propaganda is a stale subject about which there should be no further discussion...
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau had no reason to believe that his spring financing operations would be anything except a success (TIME, March 9). But when his offerings were last week oversubscribed nearly seven times, the Secretary was forced to admit that it was "perfectly phenomenal." For $1,250,000,000 worth of bonds and notes the Treasury received subscriptions footing up to no less than...
...bringing up the case of the man who prefers to spend all his hours in Widener, Mr. Jones questions the advisability of Harvard's 'athletics for all' policy, and, even deeper, the advisability of athletics in college at all. One must admit the truth of Mr. Jones' point that what fame Harvard may have has come through its intellectual preeminence. One might ask Mr. Jones, however, if the fame of the college, rather than the happiness of the men it educates, is the true goal it should strive...