Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mathematics Department with a subject worthy of its wizard calculations. Most Harvard men have been so bewildered by the fertility of March in breeding April Hours that they have little spirit left for questions of chronology. It is so much simpler to concede Mr. Einstein a point and admit that the whole thing is purely relative...
...Degrees or Titles on those who be their Proficiency as to Knowledge in Theology, Law, Physick, Mathematicks or Philosophy have been judged worthy thereof. It is hereby Enacted and Ordained That ye President and Fellows of the said Collidge shall have power from time to time to grant and admit to Academical Degrees as in the Universities in England such as in respect of Learning and Good Manners they shall find worthy to be promoted thereunto...
...They were both nearly always ill, largely from undernourishment. Their lodgings were always depressing, dirty. Sometimes Sophie put cotton in her ears, sat down facing the wall, shut her eyes and sang at the top of her voice to drown out the scene. But to visitors they would never admit their poverty, would lie like troopers about their prospects and resources...
Ceremoniously he swung open the main chamber portal to admit big amiable Maurice Latta, White House clerk. Clerk Latta bowed low from the waist, handed in a paper, bowed low again, vanished. Representatives flocked excitedly into the House, filled its curved rows of black seats. Speaker Longworth drew himself up importantly in his high chair. Everything became quiet. A clerk on the rostrum cleared his throat, began to read the White House document...
...doubts of her guilt; when Melton finally ran away from them all he was sure he knew why, was sure she was innocent after all. In Manhattan he found her at last, convinced her he was not enough of a sophisticate to love a murderess, made her admit she loved...