Word: admitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Residence colleges with no Harvard affiliation will admit a limited number of Harvard men, and the nine fraternity dances are open to anyone, Havemeyer said...
...still unsettled point is the relationship between colds and allergies, though doctors admit that a layman doesn't much care what ails him, so long as he is promptly cured. Dr. William J. Kerr of the University of California's Medical School, a top authority on the subject, believes that only 25% of cold symptoms are due to allergy. Arguing from this thesis, he takes a dim view of anti-histaminics as cold cures. Said he: "To get one shot out of four wouldn't be very good hunting-and it's lousy medicine...
...defense also paraded 14 witnesses who said that they would not believe Mrs. McDanal under oath, and also produced what it claimed were pictures of Mrs. McDanal posing nude in a cornfield. The judge refused to admit them, but the defense waved them around carelessly and later, quite a few men came up to look more closely. Said one: "I'll take four copies of that one." Everybody laughed...
...British Labor Party who rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country's first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute...
...Times figures show that the majority of colleges would just as soon get along without any Federal aid. 19 per cent of the private colleges say they need aid to continue in operation, but most of the others admit that they fear Federal aid would mean Federal interference in their policies...