Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though I admit that this feat might not prove so difficult for the Count, I was given to understand that his sole claim to distinction in the conflict had been the pinking of his tail surfaces. F. V. NASH Nash Conley Co. Minneapolis, Minn...
...lifer in Sing Sing. But, I am a ''Lifer" in San Quentin, which, to all intents and purposes, is the same thing. But when you state that ''time" is unimportant to a "lifer," you merely admit an unconsidered contemplation of a "lifer's" outlook.* As a matter of fact, time is of more importance to a "lifer" who is alive than it is to the ordinary termer. The termer has a more or less definite time of freedom to look forward to. But the lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole...
Newshawks interviewing big Manhattan bankers could find not one who would admit naming a safe debt limit to the President, not one who had heard another banker do so, not one who would suggest any banker except Marriner S. Eccles, New Deal Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, likely to have named such figures...
...swines and traitors-swines, all swines! All Catholics are swines?' " To this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied: "Preposterous! . . . Such a remark would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, Carl von Ossietzky, whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine and a traitor...
...original design which he drew from the illustrations of plant morphology in Gray's Botany, a book he usually carried in his pocket. He was also a voluble theoretician, writing and speaking lyrically about the esthetics of building. He was constantly in search of the "law that will admit of no exceptions." But if he found it, he never set it down. A rapt listener to "the Master'' in the drafting room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither...