Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnecessary. Princeton may be right in principle when it says that the break came through football and must be mended through football. But when there is no possibility of mending the football breach for a number of years, at least, it is a narrow principle that will not admit a full program of sports to be more important than a game of football. In no sense is this to be construed as a defense of Harvard's action at the time of the break, or of its present demands...
...institutions desire to resume relations. Conditions on both sides make it impossible to play football. Technical difficulties in arranging schedules, old prejudices, the unwillingness of either side to yield, and all the innumerable factors, important and unimportant, serve to keep the teams off the gridiron. Princeton and Harvard should admit this without ranoor, and recognize the greater importance of the rest of the sports program. Future meetings should be held through their own initiative...
...already "liquidated" the only two dangerous Russians) and dictated his terms. When they understood his amazing proposition they scurried to sign. So would you have done. Economists may laugh at Tycoon Rand's slick scheme, but the plain man will admit it makes a good Oppenheim yarn. The Author. Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 64, tycoonish-looking himself, writes stories "because, if I left them on my brain, where they are endlessly effervescing, I would be subject to a sort of mental in digestion." He published his first story at 18, his first novel at 20. He never plots...
Reporters interviewed a leading samisen manufacturer of Tokyo, found him smiling toothily behind gold-rimmed spectacles, willing to admit that he was the prime mover for the erection of the dog & cat placater...
...environment. Crime is destiny." Professor Lange respects his own conclusions, says that so far as the causes of crime are concerned, "inherited tendencies play a predominant part. . . . Heredity does play a role of paramount importance in making the criminal; certainly a far greater role than many are prepared to admit." But he thinks "environmental influences are of particular importance for a criminal because his very nature includes a far greater amount of suggestibility than the average man. In this way he often becomes a helpless victim of any environment in which he happens to find himself...