Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercialism" (he does covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, along with book illustrations, perfume ads, ballet sets, china, furniture, silk print and needlepoint designs), but can't help envying his commercial success. They scoff at his preference for pretty and elegant subjects, but have to admit, gritting their teeth, that Vertes (rhymes with bear says) draws and paints very prettily and elegantly indeed. They call him superficial, forget that such masters as Fragonard were...
Authorities at the University of North Carolina and Duke University suggested that students go to school around the calendar to finish the educations in three years rather than four. Duke announced this week it would admit freshmen in June...
...Jennifer Jones and Producer David O. Selznick, who were married in July 1949, finally got around to taking inventory of their wedding presents. Then they hastily called the police to report the theft of a pair of covered silver dishes and a tray worth $2,000, but had to admit they had no idea when the theft might have happened...
...Rudi Bing, the paradox of the old Met is the fact that, despite the old sets and old costumes, standbys such as Traviata and Trovatore "still sell out the house." His task, he thinks, is "to get the public to demand new and better productions." He has to admit, from box-office records, that so far "the public just does not care." But, says Rudi Bing, with the look of a man setting out to do something about it: "I do care...
...from being the perfect weapon. Some doctors think that it can be downright dangerous; even its most ardent partisans admit that it will not do a complete immunization job in every case. It can be used only on patients showing no active sign of the disease. An added difficulty is the fact that no one can be certain just how effective BCG is until it is made the only preventive agent in a long-term experiment on a large mass of people...