Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These cards are not tickets, but admit only to the courtyard. Tickets may be obtained from members of the House Committee after Monday, October 15, and will also be on sale at the door. The price will be $2.00 per couple, and $1.25 stag...
Opponents of the managed currency were obliged to admit that Sweden's production index, as compared with 100 in 1928, has come back to 95, highest of all Western nations except Russia (Britain- 92; U. S.-66). Furthermore, Sweden's unfavorable balance of trade dwindled from 203,000,000 kronor ($52,780,000 Roosevelt) in 1932 to only 11,800,000 in 1933. But for Sweden's upturn they had many other reasons: the great public works program begun in 1933; the thrift and conservatism of Swedes; the exemplary caution of Swedish savings banks; the huge cooperative...
That Mrs. Vanderbilt had any legal right to her daughter Mrs. Whitney would not admit. When "Reggie" Vanderbilt died in 1925 his beauteous wife was but 20, too young to have legal custody of their baby. For ten years Mrs. Vanderbilt was content to let relatives worry over her daughter's upbringing. Three months ago she applied to be made Gloria's guardian. Mrs. Whitney countered with the charge that her sister-in-law was not a fit person to have her own daughter...
...back of a wagon, announced his second candidacy for the Governorship. During this campaign he took cognizance of State-wide gossip about his sex life. To a female audience The Man Bilbo cried: ''If these stories about The Man Bilbo are true, you've got to admit, Sisters...
Whether they like it or not, U. S. readers-and especially Midwesterners-will admit that The Folks rings true, has no perceptible alloy in its honest realism. Its cumulative power lies in the fact that it is written straight, with no scintilla of satire or sentimental sympathy. Foreigners might object to the almost total absence of ideas in the book. To them a U. S. reader could reply that the Midwest is the U. S.'s backbone, not its brain...