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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the various departments of the faculty, confusion reigns supreme on the tutorial issue. Faculty members admit that current practices are no better than stop-gaps, but there is little discussion of better programs and little planning for what must be a brighter future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mislaid Cause | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

Although many a planemaker (including Piper, Cessna, Republic) denied it, the stockmarket decline and the slump in the luxury market had cut sales. Those who did admit it usually put the blame chiefly on lack of sufficient airports to take light planes out of the luxury class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Fulton's Folly, New Version | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order while still preserving full civil liberties even for law violators. Why don't you admit that the implications of the article were unfounded and unwarranted ? Why not say that your face is red? Surely TIME will not diminish in public esteem by such a brave admission of error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...heavy as the Varsity's, one that holds its opponents to even less yardage than does Harlow's, and a passing combination that is the envy of all who see it, the Jayvees are more like an average peace-time Varsity eleven than the coaching staff would like to admit...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

Russia has pending on the provisional agenda a request that the Assembly take up Russia's proposal calling for information on the number of allied troops in alien non-enemy countries. The Security Council recently refused to admit that request to its agenda and Russia is expected to press it to the fullest before the Assembly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presence of U.S. Troops in Far East Attacked by White Russian; Court Backs Talmadge Position | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

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