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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next day Mr. Christo, who did not know or admit the possibility of psychic phenomena, resolved to call in the aid of a policeman. ... An officer and two constables were placed at his disposal. . . . After searching and inspecting every corner of the house, the lights were extinguished. Knocks on the front door were immediately heard downstairs. 'Do you hear that?' said Mr. Christo to the constables. 'Perfectly,' they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunts* | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

Resolution to admit Empire dried fruits free, defeated by 6 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

Explorer Marsh has long been an enthusiast upon the subject of blond Indians. Anthropologists as yet decline to admit their existence, or to attempt to account for their ancestry in case they do exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Albinos? | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...Passed a bill to admit some 13,000 immigrants who have arrived in excess of the quota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...probation is intended as punishment, pure and simple, then let us admit that Princeton has not progressed beyond the high school stage and that its authorities still feel required to deal with the undergraduates as one disciplines a recalcitrant school boy. If probation is intended as a warning, as an incentive to study, then the present system is a lamentable failure. The psychology of offering a man eligibility in return for improvement in the classroom cannot be denied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/14/1924 | See Source »

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