Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assault wave this time. I know it will be rough, but I have no kick coming, as I asked for it. If it will ease your mind any, remember that this was my idea. I wanted to come over here. I am scared and I am not ashamed to admit it. Also I have been reading my Bible regularly. It makes you feel a lot better...
...they change the tone and tenor of their Presidential campaign and give us something constructive for once? Those of us who loyally support Mr. Roosevelt and those of you who are unalterably opposed to him recognize that there have been mistakes made and-whether you admit it or not, Mr. Dewey does-tremendous advances have been made in our social planning and economic development. We know how old Mr. Roosevelt is, we know who his advisers are, we are fully conscious of everything he has done, is doing, and plans...
...most athletic of musical techniques. It consists in ringing three or more bells in a series of variations. Three bells are mathematically capable of only six "changes" (i.e., 1, 2, 3; 1, 3, 2; 2, 3, 1; 2, 1, 3; 3, 1, 2; 3, 2, 1). But four bells admit of 24 changes, and twelve bells can ring no less than 479,001,600. Such a job would require the continuous services of twelve ringers for 30 years...
...football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarterback Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn't work...
...C.I.O. were to announce that it would admit no reporters to its conventions unless they belonged to its American Newspaper Guild, the U.S. press would unquestionably set up a yell that could be heard in the farthest recesses of the New York Times library. The British press was audible last week, for an equivalent reason. Beginning its 76th convention at Blackpool, Lancashire, the British Trades Union Congress announced that it would admit to its press tables only reporters holding membership in the National Union of Journalists. Object: to high-pressure more newsmen into militant N.U.J. (A smaller, rival union...