Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategic Withdrawal? The Germans reported only local action for a week, then were forced to admit strong attacks. They denied the removal of Field Marshal von Bock, as the Allies rumored, claimed they were making planned strategic withdrawals...
...other way but expansion. Britain and France won the control of world economic opportunity. The natural industrial unit of Germany was blocked from it, and Europe was split up in such a way that economic stability on modern terms was impossible. The peace completely failed, as anyone will admit, to come to grips with the real cause of the war, and subsequent policy showed no greater enlightenment. The basic problem of the present war, stripped of ideologies, seems to be exactly the same: how can we divide the world up into natural and stable economic units that will satisfy...
...Since Italy passed its racial laws in 1938, some 4,500 of its 57,000 Jews have become Christians "due to a desire to place children in Catholic schools and circumvent the economic restrictions imposed on Jews . . . also [in] the hope of emigration to Latin America, where many countries admit proselytes while barring Jews...
...lesser degree, on certain South American countries. . . . Other likely countries are either closed to newcomers, or apply their laws exclusively against the Jews, directly or indirectly. [For example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals.] The era of . . . mass immigration that brought 2,460,495 Jews to the U.S. alone during the years...
Indomitable Dr. Thomas made the trustees of Johns Hopkins admit her by a special vote to their graduate Greek Department. Later she stormed her way into the Universities of Leipzig (where, as the only woman, she had to sit behind a screen at lectures) and Gottingen; then, refused a Ph.D., went to Zurich to get one. She took charge of Bryn Mawr in 1894, ten years after its founding, ran it with an iron hand until...