Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communications from Berlin," continued M. Flandin, "betray a condition of mind that wishes to impose a kind of moral direction of affairs on the rest of Europe. It now remains to be seen whether other nations will agree to be morally directed in this...
...election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party's candidate for State Comptroller. Considered their No. 1 asset by California Communists, she is gentle, generous, indisputably sincere. Red-haters call her a fanatic who has used her birth & breeding to betray her class. Of 25 candidates examined for Communist Whitney's jury only two admitted to prejudice against Communism. The rest, including five subscribers to William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, had "never formed or expressed an opinion" on the subject...
...bear fruit thereafter.) VII "I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. On him the end, the means, and the word. And the harsher judgment if he erred, And-outboard-ocean waiting to betray him. VIII "Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, Strength in duty held him bound, So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!" IX After his lieges, in all his lands, Had laid their hands between his hands...
...Whitney fortune expresses itself in directions which are urbane, sporting, adventurous, without being reckless, and which betray efficient and complex sophistication. The interest which most Whitneys have in common is horse-racing. Theirs is the most important name on the U. S. turf but their stables are at once so well-managed and so large that a sport which is economically ruinous for people who attempt it less elaborately costs them almost nothing. Without being either dilettantes or intellectuals, Whitneys are rarely averse to making money or spending it on enterprises connected with the arts. Without being extravagant or foolhardy...
...spoonful by spoonful. No less profit from the new Decalogue will accrue to the University by casting out courses like Biology A, which offer little sound knowledge of the subject, and still less of the methods of biological work and thought. Freed from this dead weight, the departments will betray their trust if they do not transfer their efforts to more fertile undergraduate instruction...