Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently our latest request for a permit to admit TIME to Argentina, where TIME has been banned for the last 21 months, was refused. The occasion of this refusal seems to me to be as good a time as any to review the events leading up to it. They fit a pattern that has become familiar to TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, in its business of distributing TIME to anyone who wants to read it anywhere in the world...
...years ago. Young John Kenny became boss of the Second Ward. Then, a year ago, Hague had tossed him out because John was getting "too popular." Said Kenny frankly: "If Hague had not thrown me out, I probably would still be a member of the machine. I have to admit...
...dissector is the fact that he embodied (in the words of his friend Leigh Hunt) "the life and soul ... of 50 human beings." Some of these 50 beings were pretty sleazy characters, and they have been sternly ignored by those whom Pearson calls "Dickolators." Most biographers have refused to admit that their idol often fell short of the ideal Dickens expressed: a "glowing, hearty, generous, mirthful, beaming [attitude] to Home and Fireside...
...there hardly breathes a senior with soul so dead that he won't admit Graduation is worth the time and that the money can be managed somehow. It's simply that plans have to be made reasonably far in advance, and scores of seniors don't face the Graduation issue until too late. It isn't too late yet--the Class of 1949, and all others who will receive degrees in June, can still get the pesky details out of the way and appear in staggering numbers five weeks or so from...
...graduate students towards the problems of the school as a whole. Even Prins, for instance, despite the zeal that spurred him to write his letter, has not to my knowledge volunteered to assist any of the Council committees, though the opportunity was offered to all students at registration. We admit that our relations with the student body are not so close as they might be, and we should welcome additional help in improving them. It is devoutly to be wished, therefore, that next year instead of burying his talents, the polemical Prins will condescend to help us in productive work...