Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week everybody in the C.I.O.'s United Packinghouse Workers union knew that its two-month strike against the Big Four packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy and Wilson) was a lost cause. Almost everybody knew that the union's leaders were ready to admit defeat. From Chicago a call went out for local leaders to come and discuss surrender terms...
...term has always meant Radcliffe girls in Harvard courses, but things will be different when the 'Cliffe Summer Secretarial School starts work on June 28. For the first time in its 13-year history, the School will admit Harvard students, according to an announcement yesterday by the 'Cliffe Appointment Bureau, which sponsors the extra-curricular course...
Smart is the first to admit that there will be cagier seamen than he in the competition even though he's been handling the tiller according to one Nantucket legend since the tender age of six. But "there's only so much skill in handling a boat, and from there Lady Luck takes over," he says...
Citing their party's record on Matthew 25: 34-40 (". . . I was an hungred and ye gave me meat"), the Socialist Christians state baldly that "the Labor Party has a good claim to be considered the Christian Party." They admit the existence of "probably a small minority" in the British Labor movement who, as Victorian rationalists or Marxian materialists, "reject the Christian idea of God." But the Labor
Banana Nose. Why do horseplayers jeer the jockey they freely acknowledge to be the best? The fan who shouts, "Hey you, Banana Nose, drop dead!" would have a hard time explaining it. If pinned down, he. would probably admit that he thinks Arcaro is so good he can win whenever he wants to. And thus, when Arcaro loses, the fan suspects something fishy is going...