Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never mind," said Little Latmaja. "One slap was enough. I admit you are strong...
...almost continuous "indirect discourse," shifting its overheard speakers as the scene shifts but never losing its Nineteenth-Century tone of voice. Pity Is Not Enough is so achingly true to life that some readers may find it too drab for comfort; those who persevere to the end will admit that the title is well-chosen...
Alexander turned him down. Though he despised Lowenstein he liked the late, equally notorious Ivar Kreuger, would never admit that he was a crook. He fell in love with a young Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems...
...Although no obstacles would be placed in the path of able men, applicants of limited ability and mediocre promise would be denied entrance. The unpromising student would be penalized to make room for the promising one. After all, it is not ridiculous to admit large numbers of undistinguished applicants, thus wasting employment opportunities and financial aids which might be used to better purpose in assisting equally needy students of more certain intellectual capacity...
William Lyon Phelps, in a recent magazine article, looks back fifty years to his won college career, and then deplores the passing of the good old days. Though ready enough to admit the great advances in education since then, and even the superiority in most respects of the modern college, he chooses to direct attention to the precious something which has dropped out of college life in the transition from '83 to '33. He would like to recapture "something of the old monastic spirit of college life, something of its isolation, something of its intimacy...