Word: confess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be of interest for you to know that your excellent Science section has often helped me in humanizing otherwise dry scientific facts. The swing tempo and pungent phrases I give to these lectures, I must confess, are frequently inspired by TIME. And so, in addition to expressing my present appreciation, I wish also to thank you for the inspirations and many, many interesting hours . . . since the "very beginning of TIME...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (to Harlem voters): "Now that the old man is not here I can confess I like some of your nightclubs...
...Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...
TIME'S English, though often highly informal, is usually pretty good. I must confess, however, that the headline "Neighbor, How Art Thee?" on p. 12 of the current issue [TIME, July 1] almost paralyzes...
Professor Banse concluded: "We confess that it gives us pleasure to meditate on the destruction that must sooner or later overtake this proud and seemingly invincible nation. . . . The above sentences would appear monstrous, nay rank blasphemy, to every Englishman and Englishwoman in the world-if they ever saw them...