Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more I have felt bound to endeavor to put through...
...confess I was amazed to learn that overseas visitors to Great Britain spent ?25,000,000 in 1934." declared H. R. H. "This figure is the same as the figure for the sale of wool in this country and only ?3,000,000 behind the revenue from the sale of coal...
...credit to irritated Subscriber Mant for guessing Reader McFarlan's riddle. Personally, I must confess I was deeper in the dark than you claimed...
...wonder that when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon and saw with her own eyes his great splendor and wealth and harem, she could not but break in spirit and confess that indeed, "That half was not told...
...supernatural. Everything that occurs must be a part of Nature. True, some weird things that happen are out of the ordinary; but these he prefers to call supernormal. They answer to "higher" psychic laws, would probably be objects of widespread scientific research if scientists were not afraid to confess how staggered they are by what goes on in seances. Mr. Carrington apparently accepts everything in the spiritualist showcases from crystal-gazing to astral projections and ghosts (which he prefers to call phantasms) on what he deems an overwhelming weight of sound evidence and reliable testimony...