Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like war, is not to be eradicated with mere diplomatic palaver by men whose hands are tied. University presidents must give up hiding their heads in the sand and assume the responsibility which they have unfairly foisted upon athletic directors and coaches--unless, of course, they are willing to admit that football can not be amateur henceforth. If athletics are part of college life, and if gate receipts make up an important share of the university's budget, then the presidents and governing boards must assume the duties for which they were chosen...
...that "there is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies. ..." In the Dec. 14 issue of LIFE, on p. 27, under the reproduction of The Sailors' Barracks, by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico, is the remark that "The colonnade is her trademark." Now, admitting that de Chirico is Italian, an artist, and interested in horses and colonnades, I am curious to know whether "he is a she or she is a he." It is rather confusing, you must admit...
...variety of [electronic] tubes for radio sending, detection and amplification, electric power control or conversion from AC to DC or vice versa, lighting devices, sunshine meters, oscillographs. ... I take particular pleasure in mentioning these practical values, for even the most unimaginative and shortsighted, hardheaded, practical businessman is forced to admit the justification for the pure re-search-of no preconceived practical use whatever in the minds of those who led in its prosecution." Bovine Brains. After thorough study of the manners and aptitudes of 72 horses, 48 cows and eleven sheep, Miss Pearl Gardner of Cornell University's Agricultural...
...admit there is a case of influenza here. Every case I have seen has been a neglected cold which is not the textbook idea of influenza. Goodness knows, we have had an explosion of some sort here...
...brilliant is Katharine Hepburn as Jane Eyre that the critic, even, must admit he forgets the part of the flery heroine is being played by an actress and not by Jane Eyre. Possersed herself with a rebellious and independent nature, she makes the character real and vivid. As her lover, the haughty, physically powerful Rochester--whose tyranny merely serves to cover a deep tenderness, Dennis Hoey supports Miss Hepburn extremely well. At all times he is her equal as an actor, and no-where can it be said that he is completely outdone by his colleague's superb performance...