Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigidly controlled test, the medical staff of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point tried the golden antibiotic on 154 cadets with colds. At the same time, they gave harmless yellow capsules to 155 other grey-uniformed snifflers. In the New England Journal of Medicine the medics had to admit defeat: aureomycin is just one more thing that doesn't cure a cold...
...Novelist Keyes intended this embrace to signify a reconciliation of Boston's warring classes - indeed, there is internal evidence that she meant it to be a kiss of world peace-no reader of good will can object. Even the sourbellies will have to admit that such an author is a fact of U.S. life as primary and unalterable as the soda-fountain whipped-cream...
...Oregon, reports, "I saw little of him and that little I did not like much. Before I graduated, I talked with the other editors who had executive positions and they said Franklin had a lot on the ball and the nerve of a brass baboon. And I must admit, although I never lost my original skepticism entirely, I was pleased (on a meeting later in life) by the President's cordiality and informality. The man could, if he wished, charm the birdies right out of the trees...
...thing that is clear is that the Houses were built to take care of a different social situation form the one which exists today. Everyone is willing to admit that there is now a problem; nobody has yet taken the responsibility for drafting a solution...
Standing by in the delivery room at this time was Sister Mary Adele, in charge of Mercy Hospital's obstetrical department. She asked to see the patient's tubes. She was told that they were all closed up. The sister asked Stephens whether he would admit that he had tied them. He did. She told him that he would have to untie them...