Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Double Check. In Roanoke, Va., after banks bounced five checks because they couldn't read the signatures, cops tracked down Kenny Calhoun, got him to admit that he persuaded store clerks to fill out checks for him, signed them with a meaningless scrawl, did his forging in this way because he couldn't read or write...
...these criticisms as questions, because we frankly do not know the answers. We admit we have doubts, but they can be answered by those who know at closer hand the problems of the Business School. Assuming for a moment, however, that there are limitations to the effectiveness of the Case Method, would it not worth considering setting up a required course which would depart both from a consideration of practical problems and the use of the Case Method? This course would center upon the philosophical and historical problems of business and its responsibilities in the modern world. It certainly would...
...unenthusiastically as she does in the Winter Issue over Juan M. Alonso's The Death of Don Juan. The play, except for a short piece by John Ratte, comprises the entire number, and seems to be a very honest and ambitious attempt. But Mother won't admit she likes the play, which has qualities that even the most prudent might admire; she observes pontifically, "It is probably the only play of the past few years written by an undergraduate that has received any serious attention." That's safe enough all right, even if the grammar isn't the best. When...
...skewbald mare Faithful, sent Faithful for help when he found he was too badly shaken up to remount, shivered all night after Faithful moseyed off in the wrong direction, gloomily told well-wishers: "I cannot think of anything more harmful for an experienced cowboy than to admit falling off his horse. I am afraid the kiddies will have finished with...
...last week, the Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that 1956 immigration topped 350,000-the highest total of any year since 1924. At the White House, President Eisenhower considered legislation to permit the 1957 total to soar even higher. He also ordered Attorney General Herbert Brownell to continue to admit unspecified numbers of Hungarian refugees under the "parole" provision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration law "until such time as the Congress acts...