Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YALE TO ADMIT BRIGHT PUPILS...
...discovered that his job was no more exciting than being a judge. As presiding officer of the state senate, he frequently garbled the parliamentary rules and confused the statesmen. When such mixups occurred, Lieutenant Governor Knight was unabashed. "My parliamentarian says I'm wrong," he would genially admit. "I overrule myself...
Last week the French Foreign Office officially denied that it had made a deal with Franco to withdraw aid from the Loyalist exiles in return for a soft-pedaling of anti-French activity among the Arabs in Spanish Morocco. For the French to admit withdrawing aid from the Loyalists would be to acknowledge that in the past it had been given. But Spanish democrats, with small hope of unseating Franco, were preparing for a cutback in the French help that had sustained them through 16 years of exile...
...owners, the new systems have cost an estimated $200 million. Last week the House Commerce Committee, after reviewing the controversy and the still-secret development of Tacan, turned up a shocking note: since 1948 the Navy and Air Force have spent $176 million to develop Tacan, but they candidly admit that it is still full of bugs. And Under Secretary of Commerce Louis Rothschild testified that Tacan is three to ten years from being perfected. Said A.O.P.A.'s Max Karant: "The American public has got an accounting coming from the military...
Today the Research director is the first to admit the Center may contribute no more than the "proverbial drop in the bucket" toward the necessary formula. "But," he insists, "since governments, big foundations, and better brains seem to be absorbed mainly in the promotion of wars and in the invention of increasingly destructive means for the examination of man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love...