Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determine repute on a required basis of a belief in evolution!-who does not believe in evolution as a proved part of scientific knowledge. "The evidence from . . . these fields (comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, geographical distribution) ... is over-whelming." Though a unit on the fact of evolution, scientists frankly admit their ignorance of its causes. Lamarck's, Darwin's, Mendel's theories are all only partial explanations. "If this be ammunition for the antievolutionists, let them make the most of it! We can afford to be honest...
...keeps his union card. But when business begins to revive, as it is reviving now, and unemployment vanishes, the demand for labor is too keen, and the opportunities of quick profits are too tempting to hazard the cost and wastefulness of strikes. It is then more feasible to admit unionism, even the closed shop, and to grant wage increases commensurate with the rise in prices...
Probably no philosophy of news but the nature and quality of news itself. No fair-minded person would agree with Sczornic's dictum that " all teachers are intransitives," but any one who has considered the facts would admit at once that very few teachers ever find themselves in situations which display those aspects of their personalities having headline value. The personality of a teacher may be, and usually is, of the first importance to his pupils. But his pupils do not buy the newspapers...
...official statement from the Attorney General's office declared that " the prosecution is reluctantly obliged to admit justice cannot be obtained in Williamson county. No impartial jury can be obtained to try the men responsible. Witnesses, reliable and trustworthy, at great risk of personal violence, have courageously testified to what they beheld on that fatal day, only to be impeached by witnesses who plainly were interested in the defense and who clearly were testifying falsely...
...business man. The special editions which have become customary, and the ever-increasing Sunday supplements are more like an obstinate challenge to him. Every newsstand was once a command to stop and think: but now the presses move faster than ever. The business man has nearly been forced to admit defeat...