Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With censorship around the Kremlin airtight, travelers leaving Russia reported that at Leningrad the local Gay-pay-oo, in panic at Stalin's arrival to investigate Kirov's death fortnight ago, refused to admit agents of the Moscow Gay-pay-oo who accompanied the Dictator...
About 3:30 o'clock one morning last fortnight Miss George, in her Manhattan hotel room, received a telephone call from her husband. He had just arrived at Grand Central Terminal, he said, and would be right over. Few seconds later her door burst open to admit two detectives, a strange woman and Mr. Fowler. They found, according to the detectives, a handsome young man dashing half-dressed from the room and Miss George reaching for a blue negligee...
...long-awaited "formula" has finally appeared in the quarrel between Yugo Slavia and Hungary. The latter nation, it seems, is to take action against the band of international terrorists within her borders yet she does not admit the existence of any such band. In this way all parties are satisfied, both of the involved governments are strengthened at home and peace reigns...
...admit such students with no further assurance of their academic ability than a transcript of their school grades implies a faith in their scholastic aptitude which is confirmed by the usual excellence of their standing in college. Although for the most part they come from schools in the West which do not directly prepare them for work in Eastern colleges, it is not too much to assume that during several years of training they have learned the fundamentals of their own language and its use. Their instruction may not have been equal to that of the preparatory schools...
...authorities are skeptical of this group's knowledge of the nicer points of composition and conjugation, they must admit nevertheless that a certain number of its members probably know as much about these topics as they would learn in English A. To give those who enter by this plan a brief test of the sort used in the reading examinations for foreign languages, or to permit them to drop the course in November provided they have done satisfactory work, would, then, be only just, and might avert a long and unnecessary waste of time and effort by students and instructors...