Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even if there exist more than 40 vacancies, the Masters' decision is going to keep all but a small percentage of House applicants staying right where they are now. Even the House Masters must admit that few of their tennis are really suffering from any taxing problems in the supposed great post war jam. When they get together for their monthly meeting tomorrow night, let us hope that they reconsider their hasty scheme of returning to the 1946 kind of normalcy...
Then Stassen turned his attention to Tom Dewey, who so far has even declined to admit that he is a candidate. Stassen had already taken one crack at Dewey. "There is nothing in America's political history," he had said, "to recommend an evasive policy, followed at an eleventh hour by a 'me too' answer...
...deans of the College, over whose desks the undergraduate's social problems must pass, have themselves repudiated this double standard. They admit that the parietal rules should not be set up on this basis of age. Yet they continue to treat these rules as something sacrosanct, and the harried undergraduate has learned to regard them as immutable law. The deans have only to look about them at their brother New England colleges and at the graduate schools of their own University to discover that their problem has a solution. If social life at Harvard is to be a normal life...
Professor Haggard is sure that there is a real need for the course in fatherhood at Yale. He predicts that there will soon be many more sons of Eli than the world suspects. "There are more expectant fathers at Yale than any of us are willing to admit," he observes...
...save face, Greeks do not like to admit how badly off they are. The young prefect of a district described to me how his town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...