Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist who had gotten his notice two months ago from London's Old Vic repertory theater (TIME, Dec. 27), Sir Laurence Olivier had to admit last week: "I guess we are doing pretty well...
...Student Council must raise money to cover all their other expenses before the College will admit the DP's as freshmen...
...when he was only 15,* Proust practices the mincing tones of flattery: "Madame, you are pretty, extremely pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than...
Undergraduates concentrating in Chemistry often are unable to devote any time to extra-curricular activities, outside reading, or other non-course work because of the many hours which they are required to spend in the lab. Although most instructors in the Department are perfectly willing to admit the value of activities outside the bounds of Mallinckrodt, little was done up to this term, to enable more chemistry students to participate in them...
...most familiar thing about this picture is its stars, who may have put in too many years as models of romantic discomfiture. The film's manufacturers readily admit this possibility by allowing a bobby-soxer to surrender a park bench to Miss Colbert and Mr. MacMurray with the remark: "Imagine an old couple like that looking for a place to smooch...