Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignity and worth of the Harvard degree, an insult to the faculty for not knowing their students well enough to obviate the possibility of such thing, and an indication that students in American colleges today are not only willing to degrade themselves morally but are also willing to confess their unfitness for a college education...
Much in the thoughts of Pope Pius XI last week were the 200,000 U. S. Roman Catholics gathered in Cleveland for the 7th National Eucharistic Congress (TIME, Sept. 30). In Public Auditorium and Municipal Stadium the pilgrims and Clevelanders attended mass after mass, went in throngs to confess their sins in 14 languages. They listened to speech after speech on such familiar Catholic themes as the wickedness of Communism and Birth Control...
...feel it incumbent on ourselves to confess a slight preference for slinky evening dresses. However, we have always desired to see certain girls in evening dresses that are slinky about the hips and fluffy about the shoulders, and certain other girls in gowns which are fluffy about the hips and slinky about the shoulders. Other girls, of course, we should prefer not to wear evening gowns...
This morning the Vagabond has the privilege to suggest that if there are those old ones who would like to feast at the table of one of the most musical of philosophers they follow him to Emerson F at 12 where Professor Whitehead luctures. The Vagabond must confess he has attended these lectures for nearly three years. He still doesn't understand. But then again, as the philosophers themselves say, philosophy is a chase and the joy is in the running...
...afternoon last week as the price of silver was falling below 66¢ per oz. to its lowest point in four months, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau passed some hot, bedevilled hours. Finally at 6 p. m. he called newshawks into his office to confess...