Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school presents an evening course in the repair of airplane engines. But these are not of University calibre. The former, primarily designed as a psychological experiment, gives only skeleton instruction that does not touch on the mechanics of radio. The latter is so informal that the school authorities themselves admit its value is questionable...
...Navy waited 65 days to announce the loss of the cruisers Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria, although Australia waited only ten days to admit the loss of the Canberra, sunk in the same action. Since the Japs had announced sinking four cruisers the loss of the three ships was almost certainly no secret except to the U.S. people. Still more disturbing, the announcement appeared to have been timed to coincide with good news of the sinking of six enemy ships which followed next day. Thus the suspicion inevitably arose that the Navy's previous long delays in announcing sinkings...
...farms in 1940. More than 1,000,000 left in 1941. By seeding time next spring, an estimated 1,300,000 more will have gone. Now farmers can no longer tend all their acres, milk all their cows. They must somehow reduce operations, sell herds or sit down and admit they are licked...
CAIRO--Allied troops are battering steadily into the El Alamein line and deserters and prisoners pouring in from the enemy lines, many of whom fought in Russia, admit that the British artillery barrages are worse than anything they endured before Leningrad. Moscow, and Smolensk, front dispatches said tonight...
...every fair-minded citizen; but when the enemy is able, on the other hand, to truthfully contradict statements issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale-building. Just such was the case when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle stated that "no planes were left behind in Japan." It is now known that several planes were forced down in Manchuria and other Jap-held regions. With such deliberate deceptions...