Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report distributed to the entire faculty the HTU stated, "There is amazingly little placement machinery available to the Ph.D. looking for his first job. . . . Most of the universities do not admit there is a problem...
...English carry into almost every department of modern life their great unwillingness to admit facts, their power of pretending that things are not so ... [They] live in cities but they are not citified . . . They are urbane without being urban . . . They can dwell in the midst of 20 miles of paving stones and pretend, with the aid of a back green or even of a flowerpot, that they are in a hamlet on the Downs." Yet this self-deception is not all lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere...
...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...
Texans had to admit that the U.S. Senate race between pipe-smoking ex-Governor Coke Stevenson and fast-talking Congressman Lyndon Johnson was close-even for Texas. Ten days after the election it was still impossible to tell...
...CHICAGO, Samuel Cardinal Stritch told the Summer School of Catholic Action: "Let us admit that we are not succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church...