Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inglorious Infancy. Although it would hurt Sol Bloom to admit it, the Supreme Court was not always the imposing body it is today. At its first meeting, in the 2½-story Royal Exchange, at the foot of Manhattan's Broad Street, Feb. 1, 1790, only Chief Justice John Jay and two Associates turned up. Next day two more of the six Justices arrived from Virginia, making a quorum. In its first two years only one case came before the Supreme Court, was quickly dismissed because of an error in the writ. John Jay found plenty of time...
...operation. They doubt his claim that four-fifths of his patients regained their virility, think suggestion was the more powerful factor. Certain it is that vasoligature does not relieve high blood pressure, angina pectoris (heart attack) or arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Although Steinach's critics admit a few outstanding cases where vitality was restored to younger men, the tissues of old men cannot be made to grow profusely, let alone pour forth hormones...
...Panama's President Augusto Samuel Boyd protested against violation of that zone in the battle between the Admiral Graf Spee and three British cruisers (TIME, Dec. 25). In last week's reply to both the original declaration and the protest, Great Britain flatly refused to admit that a neutrality belt existed...
...until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny...
...common cause getting rid of war. They fully realize that America has a stake in the world, and cannot withdraw behind her shores, and they are forever watchful for the time when America['s strength and influence can most effectively be thrown in the scales of peace. They frankly admit that America's freedom from war is due to no superiority in her morals, but simply to a lucky geographical location. But they are determined that our ability to help shall not be carelessly thrown away, as it was in the World War. They understand that efforts for building...