Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had plenty of warning and our preparations are made and tested."* By contrast, Minister Duff Cooper's first statement was neither sweet nor soothing: "Let us not blind ourselves to the gravity of the situation or the seriousness of the task that awaits us. Let us frankly admit that so far the Japanese have been extremely successful." The Japanese were alarmingly successful: 1) Britain's great 19th-Century warrior and native-queller, Field Marshal Sir Frederick Roberts, once said that the history of the world would be decided at Singapore. By this week the Japanese had come...
Before the hearing was over, Frank Cohen had been forced to admit that he was once indicted in New Jersey, that he had been denounced by the New York State insurance commissioner, that Massachusetts' insurance commissioner had called him "the mad dog of insurance." The committee granted that Empire was indeed turning out the arms it had contracted to make. As to the rest of Cohen's story, the committee was dubious...
...committee's report will be taken up on the floor of the Senate after the holidays. Defiant Bill Langer is not yet ready to admit he is licked. Said he: "I'm going to write myself one hell of a speech, and deliver it when this comes up in the Senate. I've been in a lot worse jams than this, and came out all right...
...experts for the Army and Navy air arms, went from a five-to six-day week. Chicago has also arranged to let draftees finish college by taking correspondence courses at half rates. > Northwestern has another speed-up plan (to be tried first in its School of Speech): it will admit exceptionally able high-school juniors, let them combine the high-school senior and college freshman years. By studying summers such students can get through high school and college in six years...
...final perfection of synthetic rubber, thoughtful rubbermen admit, will demand a further outlay of at least $30,000,000 for scientific research alone. And because this research would probably make present techniques obsolete, they are-unless Japan's blockade becomes morbidly effective-in no hurry to make a premature, war-inspired effort to capture natural rubber's markets...