Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty to meet him, however . . . [and] at Locarno we spoke 'European.' It is a new language which all the world must learn! I commend it to you for study, my friends?even if it is not yet certain that the Germans understood it. ... I do not pretend that the Locarno agreement realized absolute security for France. If some one asks me whether this agreement dispenses with measures of security my answer is 'No, it does not.' But if we had not the Locarno Pact, what would be our situation in Europe? If we had nothing more than the Treaty...
...Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life for which Robert Edmund Jones designed the sets, for which Sammy Lee, famed director of Broadway revues, planned the choreography; in which jazz plays its restless, throbbing part, seems real, sincere because it does not pretend to be the basis...
Wearily League supporters accused M. Tchitcherin of "continuing to pretend that Soviet nationals are not safe in Switzerland because many Swiss are anti-Communists." At present the Swiss Government is attempting to patch up its strained relations with the U. S. S. R., and not succeeding very well because M. Tchitcherin prefers to insist that the League go to enormous expense to hold its conferences elsewhere than at Geneva, where its extensive immovable equipment is located...
...this high ground the Eli position is of course impregnable. No short, "intensive course, operated on business hours" of Mr. Babson's devising could pretend to offer the acquaintance with philosophy and art, science and literature, the understanding of the relation of knowledge to life, the broad philosophic outlook on problems of thought and conduct, which it is the peculiar attribute of the liberal college to develop. To follow the eloquent flight of the News editorial, "College book learning is primarily instruction in where to get and how to appreciate not only pure in formation, but all the finest ideas...
...pronounce at this time any final judgment on the best books of the past year is impossible, and to attempt it is ridiculous. But it is possible and perhaps not altogether useless to consider briefly those books which now seem interesting, worth reading or examining. I don't pretend to have read all the books I shall mention, and whatever hasty opinions of them I give are formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory...