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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Booming steel will need 30,000,000 tons of scrap this year, and the OPM investigators admit this is 5,000.000 more than the $20 ceiling would bring out. Steelmakers estimate the new plan would increase their average cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compromise on Scrap | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...time has come, according to MacLeish, when Harvard must admit that it has reached the peak of its expansion, and that it must organize itself within existing frontiers rather than expanding its present limits. The swing toward specialization and isolation of knowledge in one field has come to an end. Fields are becoming increasingly coordinated with each other, and the cooperation has led to great advancement in learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Says Harvard Expansion Has Come to End; Enrollment at Peak | 4/26/1941 | See Source »

...final move will be calmly to suggest that Congress admit the accomplished fact, pass a convoy bill, and the President will have won another hand of clever, if undercover, political poker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ". . . Would Smell as Sweet" | 4/26/1941 | See Source »

...Britisher I have often had to undergo a deflation of inherited ego when reading in TIME about things we rather prefer not to know about, but I have to admit that the underlying friendliness of your criticisms of our failures and jibes at our weaknesses have rendered them instructive rather than hurtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Whether or not the Athletic Committee is willing to admit it, the University has already received a bad name form the incident of the lacrosse team at the Naval Academy. The new "Jim Crow" reputation is doubly unfortunate in that the Navy was the ultimate transgressor and that Harvard has for years maintained an honest and liberal policy, toward the negro in athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Postponement Not Finale | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

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