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Word: avowals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which assumed that public service was a duty. Grandfather Lodge was the scholar in politics, arrogant, cultivated and intelligent. Henry Adams, a lifelong, sometimes malicious friend of Grandfather Lodge, once wrote of him: "He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Harnessing a Wave | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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