Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even enemies of Signor Mussolini will admit that the above is a smart defense of his much criticised technique of curbing the press. Even smarter and more cogent were his words as he launched into a critique of sensational journalistic methods...
Tunneling from the cellars of neighboring buildings proved the most effective rescue method. Forty crushed and bloody corpses were soon recovered, and 26 wounded men no less bloody. Meanwhile buried survivors made known their whereabouts by tapping. When located they were succored, first by drilling small holes to admit air, next by enlarging the holes until sandwiches and heartening bottles of brandy could be passed in, and finally by excavating and propping up passages through which they could crawl. A few perished, even at this late stage, when some of the propped passageways collapsed. Injured were 30 policemen, soldiers...
Rejuvenation. A specific use for Dr. Carrel's growth index is to measure the effect (if any) of artificial rejuvenation. Said he: "We should admit that no great imagination has been used so far in the development of those [rejuvenation] treatments. t is assumed that by grafting glands rejuvenation can take place. But it is very interesting to observe that neither [Eugene] Steinach* or [Serge] Voronoff or any of the men who have been interested in rejuvenation have attempted to verify whether or not their method of treatment has brought about a real result. After all, what should be done...
...were characteristic, shrewd. He offered charitable relief to out-of-work hand shoemakers, on certain conditions; and the offer was indignantly refused. Then, with his fighting decks cleared, Thomas Bat'a forced an investigation of his shoes by a Committee of the out-of-works, forced them to admit and sign a statement that his shoes were leather, not paper, and finally placarded all Czechoslovakia with enlarged photostat copies of the statement...
Elmer the Great. Elmer Kane didn't quite know what it was all about but that was something which he refused to admit to himself or anyone else. His girl didn't seem to think he was so hot; all Elmer knew how to do well was to pitch ball, so he took the contract that was offered to him and went south to training camp with the "New Yorks." His teammates kidded him because they thought he was fresh; Elmer, puzzled and proud, started to leave the club. But the boys knew that Elmer wanted to make...