Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position of command, and dies. Mr. McCormick is a great actor, but he is the most shadowy of the major figures in this play. Eileen Crowe plays Nora, the wife. In her efforts to save her husband she mocks the barricaded rebels, and charges them with fear to admit their fear. One feels that she abhors the struggle only because it destroys here own happiness, for in trying to drag Jack out of the fight she is oblivious of the agony of a man dying at their feet, and in her insane delusion that Jack is about to return...
...admit I have no majority," said the Premier. "In due time there will be a general election, but meanwhile I intend with the aid of the Cabinet to maintain law, order and a strong government. I intend to increase the ridiculously small Egyptian Army from 11,000 to 50,000 troops, with mechanized equipment and reserves to back them. Our foreign policy is 'Friendship for all, and especially for Britain...
...idioms to influence many of his compositions. Despite a reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students and teachers by playing the works of then unrespectable modernist composers during school hours. Refusal of academicians to admit him as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in 1905 started a row resulting in the resignation of the Conservatoire's Director FranQois Theodore Dubois...
Boasting that 80 percent of University cooks and waiters are now regular members of A. F. of L. locals 186 and 112, labor leaders admit, however, that they have been unable to reach an agreement with College authorities on either a closed or a preferential shop...
Even George Berry's enemies admit that everything about him is big. He has been president since 1907 of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America (50,000 members). He owns the biggest color-label printing plant in the U. S., at Rogersville, Tenn., and outside Rogersville the biggest farm in the Southeast (30,000 acres). It was thus a foregone conclusion that when George Berry began buying up mineral leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn...