Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order, and as for the girl that wants Geoffrey, ?well, she forfeits her claim by chasing Gita. all over the lawns and shrubbery of the old manor house in a roadster with murder in its bright lights...
...dare arrive at definite terms until Washington had made terms, for fear that Washington would get better terms. But M. Caillaux very much wanted to know where he stood with Britain before he undertook to settle definitely with the U. S. For, although the U. S. will not admit any connection between French debts to Britain and the U. S., yet from the French standpoint it was necessary to know how much one must pay the first debtor in order to know how much there would be left to pay the other. The London agreement (see COMMONWEALTH) for equal treatment...
...lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close. No water from the sea would ever enter the lower pool, its gates being opened only when its contents were above sea level. Thus there would be maintained a continuous fall of water over the power dam from the upper...
...meantime, conditions in the industry have apparently altered much for the better-although the copper business is too temperamental to admit of cocksure prophecy. Recent curtailment of production is said to have reduced output by 20,000,000 pounds from levels reached last spring. Demand has continued strong and varied. What stocks of surplus copper amount to, is now anyone's guess. But rumors in the trade are to the effect that July and August figures will shortly be forthcoming...
...Dave" gave up. His attempts to reform the restaurants were no more popular with his own party than they were with others. He felt obliged to admit that after all the restaurant was perhaps cheap and excellent, even if it did not supply eggs and bacon for breakfast...