Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second thought, perhaps all these billion dollar gestures of Mr. Roosevelt, plus the incredibly honest and sincere qualities of his tools, will get him more votes still. Men will accept his gifts with gratitude, admit his sincerity, and recognize that without all this government help starvation and misery would be their...
Once again, Mr. Strachey here posits the classic thesis of the inevitability of the class struggle. Scanning the political horizon he sees only the lifted arm of Mussolini and the lifted eyebrows of Andy Mellon. He refuses absolutely to admit that our capitalist system is capable of amelioration through peaceful self-regulation...
...other great troublemaking nations, Italy and Japan, have been quarreling bitterly for the honor of the 1940 Olympics. For Japan, whose sprint swimmers made an astounding sweep of the 1932 Olympics, the quarrel has become a bitter national issue, a crucial matter of forcing the Western World to admit once and for all that it no longer considers the Japanese an inferior race...
...Because "the education of white and colored persons in the same schools is contrary to the long-established and fixed policy of the Commonwealth," University of Virginia "refused respectfully" to admit dusky Alice Jackson, daughter of a Virginia druggist, a graduate student from Smith. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People planned to take her case to court...
...when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch by Director Bean who is not afraid to admit, "I am deadly afraid of snakes." The Bandy-Bandy had completely disappeared. Mrs. Wiley had not reported any of these escapes...