Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's Christian Gauss, 69, who started out to be a poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...
...longer hug the illusion that our processes of selective admission bring us the ablest young men. . . . We are all rich men's colleges. Much as we hate to admit it, there is much less equality of opportunity for education in America than in the Soviet Union...
...discovery, Author Lewis is sentimentally setting the stage for it. Neil is shown to have a lovely white wife, a little daughter "with [a] skin of strawberries and cream," a high-class home in a "restricted" residential district. Posed before Neil Kingsblood is the agonizing moral question: must I admit "my touch of the tarbrush" when I know what misery this admission will create for my wife and child...
Though he had never wilted before, high-handed Avery Brundage melted before Canada's hot wrath. He was ready to admit after a day or so that "extenuating circumstances" might even permit Barbara Ann to keep her car. But Canada's pin-up girl was taking no chances. Said she: "It would be selfish of me to keep the car and lose a chance to bring honor to Canada...
...Norman Reider, head psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, having completed a study of bastards' fathers, has concluded that they, too, have a pretty rough row to hoe. All kinds of unsettling decisions suddenly confront the unwed father. Should he admit his paternity? Is he sure, after all, that he is the father? Should he marry the girl? Should he feel proud or ashamed of himself...