Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano work goes, you have to admit that Lionel's wrist action is marvelous--but nothing much else comes out . . . "I Can't Get Started" by the same band is much better, with Hampden playing some of the best vibes he has in years. Incidentally Dame Rumor has it that Chu Berry, Cozy Cole (both of Calloway's band), and Clyde Hart are going to be with Hampden in his new outfit...
Much-loved and much-criticized is ubiquitous* Eleanor Roosevelt. But last week even the crustiest of Tory curmudgeons had to admit that she made sense when she told 300 Washington wives her cardinal rules for platform speaking, formed after 19 years of experience, and based on this primary principle, which gagsters at once figured would cut U. S. oratory by half...
Ohio State likes to be called a Service Station. Most of those who drive up-the sons and daughters of poor farmers, salesmen, teachers, storekeepers, railroaders, small-town doctors-are not particularly well prepared for college. But the university, compelled by law to admit any graduate of an approved Ohio high school, welcomes them all, tries to make even jalopies go. Boys, job-minded, usually study teaching, farming, business, welding, engineering (a four-year course), veterinary medicine. Less than a fifth enroll in the arts college. Chief service the university performs for girls: to introduce them to eligible husbands...
...intensity; the silence finally falling "like a sheet laid upon the face of a dead man," the grey German assault lines straggling like smoke wisps from their trenches, slowly growing into trudging multitudes: from all this Remains turns to French headquarters, where a stiff-necked major refuses to admit a major attack, delays for hours any countermeasures; to General Duroure, shocked to the depths of his soul because a Zeppelin has dropped a bomb on his headquarters, destroying his "things"; to an expensive restaurant in Paris, where the manufacturer, Haverkamp, turns a neat deal in grenades over partridge and Burgundy...
Last week, as Pete Nehemkis tried (unsuccessfully) to get Mr. Stanley to admit that his firm, managing underwriter for A. T. & T., had parceled out its financing ($580,000,000 since 1935) to a select and fixed group, SEC's quizzer carefully avoided reference to competitive bidding. A question by TNEC Chairman O'Mahoney gave Harold Stanley the opening he was waiting for. With the air of a man starting a lecture, Mr. Stanley sounded off: ". . . The question of competitive bidding is a subject which I would like to go into and talk about at length...