Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaking out the slush from our shoes (we refuse to admit defeat by wearing boots), we pondered the 19th century's foolish sentimentality and unrealism. Snow's truer character lay revealed in Ukichiro Nakaya's authoritative "Snow Crystals." Besides the run-of-the-mill hexagonal-plane dendritic form crystals, there are spatial dendritic, pyramid and columnar, bullet, needle and graupel types, to mention a handful. Of especial interest was the Tsuzumi type, so named because of its resemblance to a Tsuzumi, a Japanese tom-tom. It is a hard crystal to describe, but picture a Tsuzumi and you nearly have...
...Administration banked on that understanding as it undertook a far-reaching mission: to persuade Congress to approve as swiftly as possible sweeping changes in immigration laws. By broadening existing legislation, easing the strait-laced requirements of the McCarran-Walter Act, the U.S. would be able to admit not merely 21,500 Hungarian refugees who fled their country's October uprising, but worthy thousands of anti-Soviets who escaped Iron Curtain countries earlier, and have been waiting in pitiful refugee camps abroad for a chance to enter...
...Stalinist country and that they were destined for concentration camps. Three weeks ago, under pressure of such rumors, 300 Hungarians poured out of a refugee camp at Valdahon and made a wild scramble for the Swiss border 30 miles away, returned only when the Swiss refused to admit them...
...school and department is up to snuff. To a large extent, future faculty raises will be on the basis of performance. At the same time, some faculty deadwood will have to be weeded out. "You can't talk about a new standard of quality," says Litchfield, "and not admit that some people cannot rise...
Editors, who have been hoping to send reporters into China since the Communists first offered to admit U.S. newsmen last August, hailed the correspondents' arrival in Peking as a Worthy cause. While they have grudgingly gone along with the State Department's ban, they see little point in its contention that lifting the ban would prejudice attempts to free U.S. prisoners held by the Chinese. Newsmen also brush aside the State Department's argument that reporters in China might be held as hostages. They are willing to waive any potential claim against the U.S. Government-as Bill...