Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN?Is a geat actor great enough to deceive his wife; and if so would she admit it? Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...Annapolis, two cripples met, one a self-styled lion, one a so-called goat. Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap. The Penn State or Nittany lion came off with two field goals. Score: Penn State 6, Navy...
...some time those who are close to University affairs have observed with alarm a growing assumption of power by the Corporation, and a corresponding lack of willingness to admit the right of participation on the part of the Faculty and the graduate and undergraduate bodies in the business which concerns the College and the University. It has been impossible to learn of plans for the future or of motives for action already taken...
Although denying emphatically any such exciting and adventurous experiences as the CRIMSON reported him to have had he did admit under pressure to having hunted for five days in company with his brother during which time he "saw" a lion, and shot a few African bush animals of the same genus as the American skunk...
...request for independence, said he, "had been refused without proof or justification." He exhorted the Egyptians to remain faithful to "complete independence for Egypt and the Sudan." "We will never admit," he concluded, "nor will those who come after us, that a single foreign soldier shall remain on Egyptian soil...