Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furious, Beaverbrook returned to the Supply Ministry with his figures, called for Franks and asked him if they were right. Franks told him candidly they were wrong. But as Beaverbrook was still reluctant to admit the error to his archfoe, Bevin, he ordered Franks to try to find some way to reconcile these figures with the right ones. Franks smiled, went to work with his statisticians and devised an ingenious way of doing it. Having proved he could achieve this little triumph of twisted cunning, Franks burst out laughing. "That," said he, "is what I would call chicanery...
...last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...
Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...
Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...
...Spanish Union said, "We admit that the IUS kindled great hopes in our friends of the interior as well as in ourselves (Union members in exile). . . . (But) the IUS has not been able to achieve its mission as a result of the political shade that has been cast upon that organization...