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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunster men attribute the friendly cohesiveness of the Funsters to their isolation. Funsters, themselves, admit there is something to this. Geographically, however, Dunster is no father from Sever than Eliot. It is removed, however, from the bulk of the Mount Auburn Street pinball havens, and hence, Dunster men strive to make their community the self sufficient entity a House is supposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Guide To the Houses | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

...immune to Federal control, and would hit directly at the problem of helping qualified men of low income families reach college. As proposed to Congress by the President, this plan would "assist capable youths who could not otherwise do so" to attend any institution of their choice that would admit them. Such a program, however, would only be as effective as the machinery set up for determining the intellectual qualifications and real financial need of the applicants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crisis in Education | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

...finance a larger student body. This "Civilian Bill of Rights" would then be a financial blessing to the schools whether or not they wanted to expand enrollment. Colleges like Harvard that might not choose to take in any more students could be more selective of those they did admit; at he same time they could save some of their precious unrestricted funds as the government took over part of the scholarship burden. Meanwhile, other colleges that wanted to expand could now do so profitably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crisis in Education | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

Last week, U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie tried to resolve the impasse. He wanted the U.S., France and three other nations which have not recognized the Chinese Communist regime to go ahead and admit its delegates to the U.N. anyway. Lie argued that diplomatic recognition should not be a test of qualification for U.N. membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Poor Precedent | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Clement Davies. "A disreputable transaction," rumbled Tory Winston Churchill. The government, refusing to publish its special commission's report, offered no answer beyond the statement that they "viewed with grave concern the danger which recognition [of Seretse] would cause." What His Majesty's ministers refused to admit was readily added by Seretse himself. "It has been firmly believed at home for a long time," he told reporters, "that there is pressure from the Union of South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: Dirty Trick | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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