Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whatever capital she is permitted to raise and expend in schemes of Chinese economic development; and officials of the Chinese Government must submit to having at their elbows Japanese advisers like those in the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. This week Ambassador Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden of another Japanese war. Their export business, stimulated when Japan took...
...human race was not yet ready to admit that it was being scourged by syphilis. Because the disease was generally contracted in the course of sexual misconduct, an enormous social taboo had developed. Victims suffered in silence or ignorance while Society took the moral view that they had simply got what was coming to them. To break down this taboo in the U. S. and tackle syphilis scientifically rather than morally is the high and burning purpose in the official life of Surgeon General Parran...
...Rice, Dr. Parran and every other responsible social hygienist in the country admit that they cannot strike their enemy dead unless they first demolish the social custom which forbids public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran...
Nobody seems to have much luck in uncovering the details of Gruenewald's life. Readers of Professor Burkhard's newest and most thorough study of the artist will find that he too has to admit defeat on this issue. But the author assembles and weighs wisely whatever evidence has been unearthed concerning the painter of the Isenheim Alter; shows that his name was not actually Gruenewald but Gothart, that he studied and lived in the Rhine-Main region of Franconia, that he was a court painter for two archbishops of Mainz; that he feld some sympathy with Luther, but remained...
...School faces is the question of admissions. It is only since the War that the number of applicants has become such as to make the problem acute. There are two methods of dealing with a large number of candidates for admission. The first, used by Harvard, has been to admit every college graduate with a reasonable record, and then at the end of the first year eliminate those who are obviously not qualified to continue...