Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Clayton, he claimed, had cleaned up $5 million through cotton sales abroad by his brokerage firm, at the same time that he was actively urging U.S. loans to foreign buyers. Said he: "Mr. Clayton is a well-known one-worlder in do-gooder circles, and I must admit that he does believe in one world-one world for Will Clayton and family...
Last week one of A.V.C's top leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., admitted their success: "The Commies moved in, and from a flowering, inspiring group of young Americans, interested in the nation's welfare, we have become a tattered and torn group. We are now bewildered and confused by the lies and tactics thrown at us by people who would not admit they were Communists but who at every turn of the road hewed to the Daily Worker line." The A.V.C. was now stopped near the 80,000 mark in its drive for a million members, he said...
Fast & Narrow. Dr. Howard H. Aiken, director of the laboratory, does not like to hear his machines called "mechanical brains." "These humanitarian terms are unfortunate," he says severely. But he does admit that they work more or less like fast, narrow-minded brains. Like the brain, the machine accepts information, generally in the form of figures represented by small holes punched in a paper tape. It salts them away in a kind of "memory." (Dr. Aiken prefers "the relatively modest term: storage of numbers.") Then it combines them into conclusions, as human brains try and often fail to do. Unlike...
...least 60% of doctors do not treat alcoholics in any shape or form. ¶ Municipal hospitals, when they admit drunks, treat them with indifference, sober them up, try to get rid of them as quickly as possible (usually in less than 24 hours). Most private hospitals bar them...
Though some of the girls at Cuautla admit that their chief motive for joining was the prospect of adventure, most of them have found real satisfaction in the Friends' experiment in grassroots international relations. Said 18-year-old Gay Bauman of New York last week: "So many tourists . . . have acted so badly here that it is almost automatic for the Mexicans to view you coldly. They are beginning to know that all Americans aren...