Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps, however, "patriotism" refuses to admit this. All right, say "Wilderness and Cold Harbor-and the 1st Bull Run, and Antietam and Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg" before spirit succumbed to might-as in Spain...
...Fairs are usually remembered for 1) their effect on contemporary architecture, 2) their naughtiest exhibits, 3) their deficits. Unlikely to have either a notable influence on architecture (TIME, Jan. 2) or to admit a deficit, San Francisco's fair is still in the competition with its naughty-naughties. Handicappers' current No. 1 choice is Sally Rand's troupe of cowgirls, wearing boots but no saddles on a "Dnude* Ranch" behind plate glass (see cut p. 16). Instead of "Midway," the fair's fun section is called "Gayway," which, although it means red-light district down South...
...Jews. Last week the Committee heard the most encouraging news since its creation: 1) President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth offered to take 1,000 refugees annually, plus an unstated number of doctors, engineers and technicians; 2) a delegate of the Dominican Republic announced that his Government could admit 100,000 refugees, provided they had funds; 3) Australia offered to admit 15,000; 4) Paraguay a "limited number," while The Netherlands and British Governments announced investigations examining resettlement possibilities in their colonies...
...impractical because, by barring totalitarians from his laboratories, Bridgman does not prevent them from obtaining the information contained therein. If anything of military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom...
...Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. announce that they propose to admit to general partnership on February 17, 1939, Messrs. Henry C. Alexander, I. C. Raymond Atkin, and William A. Mitchell...