Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bigtime. Jones considers 1941 his best year, when he coaxed Warren Wright's stable (including Whirlaway) in to the greatest amount of money ever won by a single stable: $475,091. But although he will not admit it, Jones seems headed for even bigger things...
...they sit by her side until death-and then find the visas have expired? "Would it be better for a pregnant woman not to mention the fact [to the consul]? Would it be better to conceal the seriousness of an illness or to exaggerate it? Was it wise to admit that the German commission might demand extradition if there was any further delay...
...Sight. Plainly, the President was anxious to get the Ward case off the nation's front pages and, if possible, out of the nation's mind. He acted swiftly on the tested maxim that it is always good politics to remedy your mistakes quickly but never admit having made them...
...broker a while back, "I'll produce oil in Georgia." Up to last week, Georgia was not yet an oil state-but it had begun to look as if the Lord had His arm around the whole southeastern U.S. Conservative oilmen are still talking conservatively, but even they admit that the Southeast is now enjoying the biggest oil-land boom since the 1930s...
Holmes fans do not admit that the man whom G. K. Chesterton called "the only real legend of our time" is just a character in a detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his smoke-filled rooms at London's 2216 Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with...