Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hops and did his roadwork in a Chevrolet were to win the world's heavyweight championship! So, one moonlit night last week, largely out of sardonic curiosity, 35,000 fight fans turned up in New York City's Yankee Stadium. No miracle happened. But ringsiders had to admit that no one since Max Schmeling in 1936 had got into a ring with Joe Louis with less fear...
...Conklin stuck steadfastly to Darwinian natural selection (with the addition of mutations to work on), and still does after 55 years. Others who once thought he was wrong now admit he was right. His good friend, Caltech's famed Thomas Hunt Morgan, once an extreme proponent of the mutation theory, now admits that evolution cannot work without natural selection. But Conklin has had to take cracks in return from his friend Morgan. Remembering Conklin's famous mollusc studies, when the first Conklin daughter was born, Dr. Morgan suggested naming her Crepidula...
...game; hence a lack of good pilots in the early-thirty age brackets is not critical. Free-lance figures for British and French air strength are judged far too high. Free lance authorities set British monthly plane replacement capacity at 600, professionals say it is closer to 240. They admit, however, that the British production rate is rising. But, while the British may have solved some of their production problems since Munich, the professionals doubt that Royal Air Force expansion will catch up with German replacement capacity...
First she polled Harvard and Yale boys, businessmen, wearers of hats, heavy shoes, tight-woven woolens, collars & ties in the dog days. These gentlemen vowed they were quite comfortable, would not admit that their clothes were archaic. Horrified, Hawes (who once fired her obstetrician because he wore a stiff collar) concluded that such clothes were indeed their proper wear...
...Which we admit are slightly bold...