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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris newspapers were as indignant over the thefts as their readers, but they had to admit that the series of burglaries which had plagued the residents in fashionable Neuilly and the Bois de Boulogne over the past month had been carried out in exquisite style, "avec delicatesse et galanterie," as one paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Polite Pair | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...mile-high stack of blue chips to CBS, to his sponsors and to their advertising agencies. Though admen may wince at a typical Godfrey commercial (plugging a shampoo made of eggs and milk, he cracked: "And if your hair is clean, it makes a fine omelet"), they admit he makes products move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...read with interest and, we admit, with misgivings, your editorial on the Mississippi Valley Association, entitled, "In the Valley of Debt," whch was reprinted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Friends of Old man River | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

...provided housing for those of them who were married, should it not carry out the program and continue to provide the facilities even though there is a monetary loss? I recognize that the housing must be a liability and a headache; and yet having made the decision to admit this group (and to accept its tuition) is there not the obligation to continue the services until the end has passed? If the reply is that there is a perpetual need, is that not an argument for permanent housing for married students such as that being constructed by MIT? And until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions Housing Cutback | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...Orleans. She is shocked at the meanness of Stella's home, and the vulgarity of Stella's Polish husband. She calls herself a gentlewoman, and passes as one. Slowly, however, her pretence is discovered. In the glare of a naked electric light bulb, Blanche DuBois is forced to admit that she does not tell the truth, "but what ought to be the truth...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/15/1950 | See Source »

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