Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholly just and honorable institution. When the Democratic Representatives, just before Christmas, blocked action on the Dyer Bill, they professed to object only to its form; but as a matter of fact, underneath their arguments was a defense of the practice itself. Such an attitude, to the unprejudiced, can admit of no defense. Lynching is a flagrant crime against reason and justice. It stands as a symbol of America's barbarism in the eyes of civilized nations. President Harding, not long ago, stated his hopes for the negro race, with emphasis on their right to equal justice. As long...
...impressionable youth. Frequent statements from the juvenile courts show the misdeed to be directly traceably to a recent movie. A boy in Connecticut not long ago caused a train-wreck by picking the switch-lock with a crowbar, a trick learned from the screen. Many young runaways, when caught, admit that their inspiration for the delights of the open road was gleaned from the silversheet...
...yesterday in the CRIMSON, "By this treaty no new rights are created, and no rights are acknowledged which have not been acknowledged already. . . . It commits no nation under any condition to a policy of resistance." It is obviously a substitution for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The country will surely admit the necessity for a full and frank discussion of treaties, but, if the Senate balks much longer over this one, patience will cease to be a virtue...
...this, it might be objected, is a pessimistic view of the matter; we can hardly be expected, however, to rejoice, Pollyanna-wise, that Curley did not win by a larger majority. We might as well admit that there is something rotten in a state nearer than Denmark...
...comment upon Professor Hershey's last reason, which he terms Japanese disinclination for migration, because, while I admit the characteristic disinclination of a people to leave their native land, our inquiry into the question of population is for the purpose of seeing how strong is the economic pressure and what are the effects upon the nation of an enormous increase in density of population without proportionate increase in material wealth. Just mere inquiry into the psychological attitude of the people--an attitude powerfully influenced by environmental and historical forces of the past 25 centuries shows that a purely economic explanation...