Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jupiter: Never admit a mistake, son, or you won't be a god any longer...
When the piece was finished, Piston was forced to admit that the Piano must have gone badly astray, and the audience adjourned en masse to Paine Hall for the rest of the recital...
...these factors are not usually measured by college examinations," he stated. "We must admit that too often academic prizes go to students of mediocre ability who have good memories and the willingness to do hard, plodding work...
Less than 1% of U. S. churches use alms bags. Such bags, stretched on wooden frames, contain openings too small to admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
Shortly before her death "by accident" in Vilna, Dzjunka betrayed Rasonski to Napoleon as a Russian spy. When her confession of this brought from Rasonski only an affectionate squeeze of the arm, even Dzjunka had to admit that her husband's masochistic gallantry had attained heroic pitch...