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...that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government. . . . Whether such a day will ever come I know not. But never will I attempt to avert or retard it. Whenever it comes, it will be the proudest day in English history." It was such men who nurtured India's own liberal ideals and ambitions by inviting Indians into Britain's universities...
...darkness, it is difficult to add a touch of glory." Yet Author Tomlinson cannot escape the touch of glory at Dunkirk and the thought of Britain's air fighters: "I do not know how to write of those men who, few in number, went up on wings to avert Nazi dominion of Christendom...
...watches the action go by, and it is through his eyes that the picture is shown. Walter Pidgeon comes to the town as the local pastor, and acts as the moderator and go-between in the social problems which face the ever-poor miners. His counsel helps to avert violence during a long, hard winter when the miners are on strike. Maureen O'Hara, the eligible daughter, falls in love with Pidgeon, but he, fearing he can never offer her a big enough income, shuts himself in his church while the Oxford-trained, spats-loving boss's son marries...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's zero-hour efforts to avert a walkout of 53,000 captive coal miners on Monday appeared to have failed tonight as conferences between steel executives and mine leaders collapsed with no settlement of their union shop controversy...
...Church cannot be held blameless for the present "rotten state of economic affairs" because the Church did not act soon enough or strongly enough to avert...