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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give King Ibn Saud a "flunk" in ancient history, ethnology, and arithmetic. While granting that the King's mathematics seems dubious, I must protest your flunking him in ancient history and ethnology for his statement that the Canaanites were Arabs, as I think most scholars would admit that they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...need." Mr. Chang does not expect that the U.S. will give China's Central Government all it needs to subdue the Communists militarily. Neither do U.S. military men in China. They expect to duck out as quickly as possible and go home. If they do, the U.S. must admit a great failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REPORT ON CHINA | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...clear to the United States that we will march at their side in the cause that President Truman has defined, that we will add our strength to their strength, that their stern, sober efforts shall be matched by our own. If everything else fails, which we must not admit, here is the best chance of survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: United Front | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. has been built on Russian folk themes, and to glorify Russia's past and present. And his hard, brilliant, unsentimental, highly polished music had just the qualities the Bolsheviks liked. He soon became the most influential composer in Russia, and even non-Russians had to admit that no other composer in the world could match him in technical adroitness and flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer, Soviet-Style | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seeing Shelley Plainer | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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