Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Rio had to admit last week that the resistance of the Sao Paulo rebels was greater than previously announced. General Waldemiro Lima of the Federal forces maneuvered importantly in this fifth week of the revolution without producing any concrete results. President Vargas issued a decree last week calling for three new infantry battalions and 800 more cavalry troopers. It was admitted that the Federal troops have had no great success. A grand mass offensive with airplanes, tanks, artillery and infantry was promised for next week...
Circusman John Ringling had to admit newsmen to his suite at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel, hard by the area which was destroyed by fire last week, before they were convinced that he had not had his legs amputated. Angrily he explained that an infected blister on his right instep had been treated, that was all. Now he and his wife had come for a fortnight's rest as guests of his good friend Samuel W. Gumpertz, president of Coney Island's Board of Trade. As for the amputation story, which had already gotten into print...
...ling Yui is a partner of Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, which last week applied for membership in the New York Stock Exchange. If the application is accepted, the Stock Exchange will admit its first Chinese member-firm partner. Though Swan, Culbertson & Fritz will have its Manhattan office with Hayden, Stone & Co., the main office will be in Shanghai where the firm and Partner Khe-ling Yui have done business for a long time...
...admit a parallel between yourself and Peter the Great...
...Board was suggested by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who already, at 37, was a moving spirit in U. S. pedagogy. Many an august college president objected. But Harvard's liberal Dr. Charles William Eliot approved, pointing out that such a board would only set the examinations. Colleges could still admit and reject applicants as they pleased. In 1900 the College Board was established in the Middle States. Colleges throughout the land fell in line, gradually discontinued their separate examinations. Today nearly every U. S. institution accepts, and most big ones require. College Board ratings...