Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escape the duty to develop the intellectual approach to life and to train the mind as a means for personal enjoyment and as a solver of problems. Unfortunately, when we come to view America's vast system of tax-supported secondary education, we are bound, I fear, to admit that, with all it has to its credit, it is not fulfilling its duty to the mind ... Its greatest weakness has come from playing down academic scholarship ... in favor of universality at a level of intellectual aptitudes adjusted to a common denominator...
...Missionary Spy. It was hard work. Methodist Dr. Stockwell learned to parrot a Marxian view of the news, and to give an interpretation of his missionary life as an act of aggression against the Communist government". "I admitted," he later wrote, "that my speaking and writing had made the Chinese friendly to the United States and cool to revolutionary doctrine . . . and that if this was what they meant when they said I was a spy, then I would have to admit that I was a spy, a missionary...
...advocate of Deans Office meddling in the affairs of undergraduate activities, but you will have to admit that if any of these activities deserves to be "investigated," it is the business of film showings. For some time now I have wondered just what relevance film showings have with the interests of, say, the Liberal Union, or the U.N. Council. Ivy Films would seem to be the only organization with a direct and legitimate interest in such showings...
...union funds, but has been ordered, on pain of action by his peers in the Federation, to clean up his criminal-ridden waterfront locals in the Port of New York. Nevertheless, on appearing as a witness before Tobey and his waterfront investigation committee, Joe refused to admit that he was heavy with...
...have a responsibility to hold the line on prices, now that the economy had been freed of controls. As one steel user said: "Either these fellows are going along with the new Administration or they aren't. I think they should come out in the open and admit they aren...