Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel, "Manhattan Transfer,' an innovation which has been critically as well as financially unusually successful. Indeed, the absence of these features constitute no grounds for objection, but rather for interest and speculation; and when one has adjusted his set of standards and expectations, he can not fail to admit that the play is artistically rounded, skillfully constructed, trenchantly brilliant, and thoroughly entertaining...
...therefore, we cannot see the means of balancing a salary increase by better efficiency through organization, equipment and the suppression of waste time?if you don't want to admit this possibility?the American automobile will replace the French automobile, and it will be the death of the French automobile industry, just as occurred in the case of the farm machinery industry. It will mean unemployment and all its conseconsequences...
Perhaps the shower that fell that afternoon gave Bobby a crick in the neck. Many thought so, though he refused to admit it. Or perhaps it was just one of those inexplicable lapses that the best of players cannot escape. At all events, it was a different Jones that hooked to the rough and traps, sent his approaches wide and missed diminutive putts the next day against 21-year-old Arthur Jamieson Jr., whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating...
...from Harvard University with the class of 1878; life-long student and teacher of history, and noteworthy contributor to historical literature, how carrying to completion the most satisfactory, the best balanced and most complete history of the United States member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, gladly admit you to the degree of doctor of letters in this university...
...there is dynamic and creative thought there is new hope. In this wholly forward direction the minds and souls of other men will always turn. Is there a contest between the two ideas? Very likely; but why should there be conflict between those who entertain them, since both sides admit the principle? There is no sound reason for such conflict. The thought of our time, let it lead in one direction or the other, is sincere. It seeks the truth. It desires, as men never desired more resolutely, to solve the problems of the soul. Since all are earnest...