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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval course, strictly limited from the start by appropriations in Washington, will be able to admit no more than it did last year, Freshman. These men will sign up for the full four year course and take a physical examination before they are admitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roads To Commission Artillery Reserve Open | 9/2/1941 | See Source »

...outlook, too, Mr. van Mook is American. He has strong convictions on the part the U.S. must play in the ultimate Pacific settlement. He believes in broadening the base of government, eventually to admit the natives to suffrage. Says he of the world of the future, raising a finger at the colonial conservatives who had so heartily disapproved of him during his political period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Porcupine Nest | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...stopped loving a person, you have, and that's all there is to it. There's no explanation for it. But, although it happens every day, people always are upset. They can't be realistic. They haven't the courage to admit it, call it off, then go on with their lives." -t - Sixty-nine-year-old Lady Decies, bejeweled grand dame of the international set, announced at starchy Newport (the scene of many of her fabulous social antics 30 years ago) that 74-year-old John Graham Hope De la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Working persistently, learning patience and the wiles of politics from old Cordell Hull, who is rich in guile, Welles has carefully sketched in the background for the practical operation of the Hemisphere in a friendly alliance, unified of purpose. He admits that many of the problems seem insoluble today; he does not admit they will always be insoluble. Before him he has the example of Mr. Hull, who worked with single mind and infinite patience for 25 years to get his reciprocal-trade principle accepted by the world, saw it overthrown five years later by Adolf Hitler, yet has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomat's Diplomat | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Arrests Trotskyists. . . . Strike Threatens Defense Plant. . . . Knox Wants Navy to Clear Atlantic. . . . Girl Found Slain in Woods. . . . Unequal Burdens Seen in Tax Bill. . . . Two Admit Plans for Kidnap Career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: State of the Nation | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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