Word: protending
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Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, with a beard "as pure as driven snow", George Lyman Kittredge retired in 1935, and his death last year leaves a gap in literary scholarship that no other authority can protend to fill. His "English 2; Six Plays" of Shakes peare, which he insisted on spelling "Shakespeare", was one of the most famous courses in the country...
...British Ambassador's speech before the American Farm Burean Association last night indicates that the hour for a final decision by the American People between peace and war is drawing near. The Ambassador does not protend that aid by measures short of war will be enough for Great Britain in her present need. He states frankly that America must decide whether it is to her interest to give Britain "whatever assistance may be necessary in order to make certain that Britain shall not fall...
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