Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilmington Hall, which the Los Angeles Housing Authority proudly calls the world's largest hotel for men, threw open its doors Sunday to admit the first of the 3,000 shipyard workers it was built to house-75% single men, 25% married men who live there on weekdays because home is too far away, or will be after Dec. 1 gas rationing. Its 69 frame buildings, community center, cafeteria (seating 900), gymnasium-auditorium (capacity 1,350) are spread over eleven city blocks all within rifle shot of three big shipyards-California, Bethlehem and Consolidated-so that its tenants...
...finest example. Here was an All-America end at Notre Dame who had more than his share of football thrills, who thought he had seen the acme in football rivalry when he played against the Army. Yet, after his initial Harvard-Yale game, he was the first to admit that he had never seen anything like it and that he himself had never been so excited even though not a Harvard alumnus. Earl Brown is the best illustration, but there are others quite as good. In a word, the Yale game not only means quite a little to many people...
...plight of the 450 Freshmen now living in the Yard is the crisis in the absorption of the Freshman Year by the House system. Instructors in the major survey courses report that the class is apparently doing poorer work than its predecessors; the Yardlings themselves admit that after two months of College they still feel like outsiders in the Houses with which they are affiliated. Part of their uneasiness is due to inevitable uncertainty about the future; for this, the University can offer only advice and an aspirin. But it is not too late to correct the College's failure...
When questioned further, they would only admit that the program involved distribution of free passes to the U.T. to listeners who were able to fulfill, certain requirements, having to do with voice-guessing...
...Where Tokyo broadcasts forced the Army to admit, after six months, that the Japs had captured four flyers of Brigadier General Doolittle's raiders, the War Department defended the delay in the name of military security. But the national reaction was nevertheless one of chagrin at having been played for suckers. Newsmen had to keep silent while London originated the first story that U.S. troops had landed in Liberia, that U.S. tank crews were operating in Egypt, that Mrs. Roosevelt was going to Britain...