Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...
Some of the important features include the continuation until further notice of the regulation permitting the his best seventh of a graduating class to be admitted without examination, and the refusal to admit a candidate whose native tongue is English unless his work in English composition is passable. On this subject the letter says...
...arraign the former leader before a court of justice does not correspond at all with the dignity of the German people, and even our enemy countries admit that Ludendorff was inspired solely by patriotic motives. The whole world will ridicule and jeer at Germans because of this patriotic tragedy...
...consider Mrs. Atherton, I have little patience with those exceedingly self-conscious members of the older generation who are, to quote George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, "rocker bound"; who insist on their creaking mentality and absurd clinging to standards which they really never possessed. I'll admit that I do not care for the flapper grandmother; but the dignified preservation of a youthful viewpoint cannot be questioned. The wisdom of age combined with the enthusiasm of youth and a tolerance which is characteristic of no time of life but is, perhaps, a God-sent gift somewhat akin to second...
...root of the trouble was the same as in so many other historic complications. The last straw was the refusal of the Minister of Public Works, under whose jurisdiction the excavations fall, to admit to the tomb a number of ladies, wives of Mr. Carter's collaborators, who had been invited to attend the formal opening of the sarcophagus. But this was only the culmination of a long series of "harassing interferences and insults," according to Mr. Carter...