Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told the Harvard Housing Commission, and the Commission told the Animal Rescue League. The Animal Rescue League referred the Commission to the Cambridge police, and the police, on the spur of the moment, couldn't think of anybody to whom they could pass the buck, so they had to admit that they were licked. The result is that our worthy guardians of law and order are at present racking their individual and collective cerebra in an attempt to evolve suitable tactics for the forthcoming cat campaign...
...gold racquets bat which proclaims a man amateur racquets champion of the land has been handed back and forth between Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer ever since 1914. Last week, at the Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo, N. Y., Mr. Mortimer, who had the bat last year, had to admit that Mr. Pell's traditionally terrific service was more terrific than ever. To Mr. Pell went match, bat and title...
...build or not to build was not the question. When to build quite overshadowed all. President Coolidge had been willing to admit that perhaps the Navy does need 15 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier (TIME, Feb. 11 et ante). But they need not all be begun within three years, was his point. It would be so expensive ($274,000,000). It would seem so warlike. It might inconvenience the Budget...
...that unusual tale of the American family, was a keen study of the basis of civilization today. In this, her latest novel, whether one is or is not in sympathy with her explanations of the puzzles the conditions of marriage have degenerated into today, one is forced to admit that Miss Bryner puts herself in a class alone in the psychological study of man and their relations with women...
...many departments in Harvard College would admit that two-thirds of their candidates for degrees were of honors calibre? If one is to judge by the rubber stamp of departmental approval, the History and Literature field is fortunate in the possession of the men who have chosen...