Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demanded that the vote be thrown out because the praying pickets intimidated the voters. Assistant Attorney General Guy Herdman has ruled against the wets. Said he: "Unless you could establish that praying affected the result, it would not invalidate the election. No voter would be so weak as to admit that these prayers so frightened him as to intimidate him to vote...
Last year Oklahoma made Joseph August Brandt, 41, a red-haired newspaperman, its president. Even Brandt's opponents admit that the results have been extraordinary...
...system as such, but in the Business School's whole examination policy. As it is now, except for one course on Managerial Reports, the final exam mark and the course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing that everything depends on his performance...
...opposition. "The blessed land of the totalitarians and of the peasants," he said, "unfortunately has no roads or only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that morass than it is for the people who were born for a life in that mire...
...year one war agency after another has wept and cried "Wolf" about how many little men were about to fold up because of the war, so far the agencies set up to "save" small business have shown much less staying power than their proteges. All the experts had to admit last week that no one yet knew the score on "business mortality," but what little they did know made it seem little if any worse than usual...