Word: begats
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working and its powers too slight for its needs. So America, which begat the League and then deserted it, set to work in her truly practical and business way to improvise machinery for getting quick results for limited purposes. If the experiment succeeds, as it will succeed, she may go on to further conquests. But nothing is fixed, and she will be guided...