Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spoke as follows before a meeting of the English Speaking Societies of Japan at Tokyo: "Had the British ambassador been here he would have said: 'to study English, go to England, which is the home of the language.' Of course, I disagree with him here, but I admit the purest water is found at its source...
Last week the fond fathers of many bills who had hoped or professed to hope until now that this session of Congress would adopt their offspring began to admit to this or that Washington correspondent that nothing was to be expected...
...will not admit that a woman can draw as well as that...
Discussing these matters on the golf course over the weekend, even crabbed gentlemen whose putting was way off were forced to admit that steel is still industry's best barometer. Of the General Motors rise they could point out that it was based on a report from Detroit that retail auto sales in May had unprecedentedly outstripped sales in April, but that this report was based, in turn, upon unusually late motoring weather. The 30 other stocks were, however, indubitable evidence of the bankers' determination to make a market. And the higher-than-ever seat price could...
...believe that a further extension of this training will make us peace-lovers though you admit that "America is not by heritage or by established desire a peaceful nation." Our history shows us that no nation thinks less of peace when it wants something that only war can get but undoubtedly increased military training will, with its usual effect, kill this tendency...