Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, each witness produced a statement. Chairman Thomas gave it a hasty, belligerent look and almost without exception refused to admit it. Then Committee Counsel Robert Stripling fired the two questions: "Are you a member of the Screen Writers' Guild?" "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah...
Eggs for the Teacher. Whether or not more distant critics would agree that Siqueiros was really a genius, they would have to admit that he played the part with dash and style. As a boy, he liked to lie in bed and outline hovering nudes on the ceiling with pistol shots. At 15, he was arrested for throwing eggs at his teacher during an art student strike; the teacher wouldn't let them paint outdoors. "Since then," he murmurs, lowering his bright green eyes, "I've been taken to jail nearly 70 times...
...equipped with its own comfortable $8,000,000 building, the gift of founders Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of Newark department-store millions. Professional chambers range from twice to four times the dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner--in the Institute's three pioneer years--when the Princeton Mathematics Department turned over Fine Hall...
...argument over who was to blame for the present high level of prices. Republicans said that businessmen would oppose any new controls. Said Michigan's Jesse Wolcott: "If he can lower prices without putting controls back on, he's a genius and we'll admit...
...pioneering almost alone. Memorial has the nation's only hospital ward for children with cancer. With only 17 beds, the ward has long waiting lists. And each month some 290 treatments are given to young cancer patients in the hospital's crowded clinic. Memorial's doctors admit that children's cancers are among the most baffling (and most tragic) of all, and that "the mortality rate ... is extremely high...