Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roots. Professorial chambers are anywhere from twice to four times the size of those enjoyed at most rich universities. Paleographer Elias Avery Lowe got extra windows so that he might decipher ancient texts without eyestrain. Archeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Salaries are above general scholarly levels. No professor has administrative chores. Professors may have vacations of about three months twice a year-but rarely take them...
...secretary of the Rockefeller General Education Board, who conceived the Institute to help the Bambergers usefully divest themselves of a piece of their fortune. Kindly, eary Aydelotte, onetime president of Swarthmore College, has reigned smoothly in Fuld Hall for four years. A specialist in Elizabethan literature, he hastens to admit that his professors are usually far beyond him in their special fields. He hopes that the Institute is influencing U.S. education right down to its foundations. Believing that the best teachers must also be functioning, creative scholars, he deplores the fact that few Ph.D.s do research once they have acquired...
...House blueprints but which is as yet undiscovered, the bedroom, in which the master's bed is separated from the remainder of the room by a sliding wall, and the peep-holes above the stairway on the second floor from which he could decide whether or not to admit guests...
...ourselves a now laundry. Looks too good to be true, at seventy cents for ten pounds, whites, khakis, and shirts included, all finished. I'll believe it when I see the first package returned, which may take as much as ten days, they admit. Anyhow, the Defense Laundries have been "taken over" by the Army (and the Army can have them) and local laundries will take your clothes only if you go along to wash them, so where does this leave...
Prisoners who are quick to admit the faults that got them captured are released immediately. Others are marched off to "Shickelgruber's Pokey," a 50-ft.-square area surrounded by 16-ft. barbed wire. Overhead floats the German flag. The sloppiest soldiers get mild labor (ditch-digging), are taunted by insulting guards. Biggest single haul: 25 enlisted men. Highest-ranking haul: a colonel...