Word: admitting
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Butler emphasized that the rally was not being called off because Army is heavily favored to win. "Although I take a realistic view and admit that cheering in the game will be like cheering for a termite in Redwood Forest, this is not the reason the rally has been cancelled. Rallies are an end in themselves...
Attacking the University's admission policy toward Negroes, Anderson charged that "Princeton was one of the last free private institutions to admit Negroes to its student body...
Although I admit to amateurhood in the realm of physics ... I feel you should not state quite so emphatically that "magnetic waves do not exist." Why, the pages of history are strewn with statements by great scientists out of the past who proclaimed in their day that the various forces that operate our present marvels simply "do not exist...
...Tobin's evidence on the disputed question of whether American Indians, long before Columbus launched a transatlantic traffic in diseases, suffered from syphilis and tuberculosis. Two shinbones, found in Arkansas and Illinois, showed changes characteristic of syphilis. Dr. Tobin and Anthropologist T. Dale Stewart, who worked with him, admit the difficulty of dating these bones precisely, but they are sure that no white man had reached the area when these Indians died...
Many Republicans had hoped for a strong state administration ticket to bolster the party in outlying districts, and were disappointed when Coolidge and Ayer gained the nomination for governor and attorney general respectively. Ayer won over Fingold, famous for smashing the Revere rackets four years ago; even staunch Republicans admit, off the record, that Fingold would have strengthened the ticket immeasurably. Democrats, incidentally, are pointing to this case as an example of discrimination on the part of Republican primary voters...