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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point needs to be made. The present rule calls for only five elections after the awarding of degrees, yet it is conceivable that more than five seniors not already members of Phi Beta Kappa will receive degrees with special distinction. It seems a pity that an arbitrary limit should admit some and exclude others whose records show them to be equally deserving. A motion now pending would eliminate that fault. These are small matters, but everything that strengthens the University's confidence in the justice of the chapter's election system is a gain for the value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE KEYS | 5/31/1923 | See Source »

...Argentine withdrew from the League in 1920 after motion to admit all sovereign nations to membership was defeated by the Assembly of the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Argentina | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...reasonably have expected." This blow, coming together with another fantastic report from the Reichsbank alchemists which has raised the total of paper currency to nearly seven trillions of marks, has sent the mark down to 48,500 per dollar. In the general panic German are making startling confessions. They admit that they have received what they might have expected, they are even beginning to see that they must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LATE SPRING FROST | 5/16/1923 | See Source »

...English are inclined to admit the legal right of the United States to act in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court, at the same time protesting such action as unfair and discourteous. The French are more inclined to regard our action as an infraction of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Viewed from Abroad | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

Without eulogizing the Freshmen too flatteringly, one must admit that they have shown a class unity beyond any that has developed in the past few years. They have "got together", to mutual advantage, more often than was usual, and certainly their athletic prowess needs no advertising. Their football team and crew have beaten Princeton no small distinction this year and the other teams have met with similar success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAD AND OIL | 5/9/1923 | See Source »

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