Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused to admit photographers to snap Al Smith on the rostrum...
...order to admit all who wish to attend the services, those who are present on Monday evening or Tuesday afternoon are urged not to attend the repetition of the service on Tuesday evening...
...Connecticut newspaper. Finally, 1914, a year before he left Harvard, he turned to play writing. His first plays were of the sea, the others have dealt with both countryside and swarming city all grim, sharp pieces except for Ah Wilderness, which did not lack sharpness. His themes and technique admit no confines...
...only reason why people go to tutoring schools, that they haven't done enough work, was studiously omitted from the questionnaire on the grounds that the Committee was afraid that "people wouldn't admit it." Well, perhaps. But to disguise this under "too much time spent in extra-curricular activity" is hardly a step toward the plain-speaking that is necessary if the problem is to be solved...
...Admittedly, the classics have taken more than their share of blows ever the last few years, but logic, one of the classical virtues, can hardly defend the present system. Even Professor Rand, our own Matthew Arnold, would admit that. And an examination in their Latin given at the end of the college course might discourage even the most persistent advocate of this new Caesarism...