Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Mr. Cohan's friends last week had to admit that his latest song was probably his worst. The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's. Typically Cohanesque was a bugle call for the transition from verse to chorus. The words were no better than the music. Excerpts...
Much as America hates to admit it, the Dole undoubtedly saved England. Despite the "ignominy," despite the high-flown phrases about "selling one's birthright," the Dole, in fact, if not in name, exists and must exist in our own country today. But Britain faced the situation squarely as soon as it arose. The British grumbled, dug down deep in their pockets, paid till it hurt, and muddled through...
There is something very mysterious about the chimpanzee project Yale university has been sponsoring since 1925. The professors at the university have always been ready to admit the existence of a chimpanzee colony at New Haven, but they have never completely explained its purpose. Neither has there been an authoritative report on the number of chimpanzees in the colony. Estimates have run from forty to fourteen hundred, but the higher figure is probably the result of a natural confusion of the chimpanzees and the new freshman class...
...Sophomore who comes out for the news board at this time there is a short, but externally interesting trial period, where be his tested in his ability at writing and newsgathering and then admitted is editorship in the news end. The editorial competition open to Juniors is perhaps the most valuable and interesting of them all, for it gives the candidates a chance to do some original thinking and but upon paper once a day his ideas on college topics. The Business Board competition to a period of instructions in the act of running the financial and business managership...
...reminded of Columbus: "He did not know where he was going when he started. He did not know where he was when he got there, and he did not know where he had been when he got back." New Dealers, frankly sailing on uncharted seas, should be happy to admit the parallel. They may not reach the Indies but they will be satisfied if they discover a new America...