Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some mathematicians, like Jeans, are bilingual, can also make themselves understood in fairly plain English. Cautious, Jeans concepts does can not be admit that translated; math says the most you can do is to talk in analogies that must not be taken too literally. "A scientific study of the action of the uni verse appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician. . . . The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
...disadvantage since his fellow Harvard man, Governor Roosevelt of New York, and that Johns Hopkins bachelor, four-time Governor Ritchie of Maryland, have neither of them found their greatest & best friends vet, and Owen D. Young will require a whole distinguished reception committee before he will admit he is running...
...permitted to have an unlimited naval personnel she might, by the subterfuge of en titling her soldiers "sailors," build up an army of unlimited size. Where do we stand? In vain Count von Bernstorff argued for Germany last week that it would be better for the Com mission to admit failure and go out of existence than to continue to lull the peoples of the world into a false belief that their statesmen are advancing toward Disarmament and Peace. Said a spokes man for Count von Bernstorff: "Better a failure and the knowledge of where we stand than this endless...
...present step not only because it is abandoning a tried and sure program, but because the new attitude is so entirely unworthy of the former. For the Dramatic Club to plan it presentation with no other end than offering what any second-rate stock company can give is to admit of very limited ambitions...
...idea is that this Bengal lancer has already had, if not nine lives like a cat, at any rate more than one. But Onetime Lancer Yeats-Brown would probably admit he was unusual. Not every fresh-cheeked British boy from Sandhurst turns into a No. 1 poloist and pig-sticker, nor discovers a thirst for the mysteries of Hindu Yoga...