Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing mind with the surest and steadiest quality is, I venture to believe, that which ripens slowly in the wind and air and sunshine which naturally comes its way. It does not admit impatiences, or rebellion to discipline, or too fierce a love for the purple patches of life and nothing else. To write well, to write abundantly, to write long, so that having embarked on profession we do not have to face the prospect of being stranded high and dry in it, we need "school." Of "school" the American temperament is of all temperaments the most defiant...
...these days, when detailed investigations of stratigraphy, structure, and sand conditions so frequently result in the discovery of new oil fields, and applause from oil companies and the public, geologists do well to walk humbly, and punctiliously to admit that the geologic principles controlling the distribution of oil and gas have as yet been discovered only in part, and that what remains yet to be learned is probably vastly more than what is already known...
...privilege of youth to be silly in its ardor, amusing in its lack of a sense of humor. It is the duty of youth to aspire mightily, oven at the risk of appearing ridiculous to those who admit themselves to be wise and sane. But it has no right to don the garments of old men and sit by the fireside smiling in a supercilious, sophisticated manner at the "other buffoons...
...conflict between Realism and Romanticism," he explained, "is one of long standing, and has always been marked by one characteristic. Briefly this is, that while the Romanticists admit that there is much good in the work of the Realists, the latter deny that there is anything of merit in the work of the Romanticists. Someone has used the simile of a road to point out the difference between the two schools and, in a way, the failure of both. The road is muddy, and unpleasant underfoot, but each side is lined with roses. One man looks...
Refuse to Admit War Responsibility