Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Empire without the consent of Great Britain and every other Dominion. If the Union of South Africa were competent to secede, he warned, then "Ireland would be competent to abolish the Kingship [of George V in Ireland] or to substitute another Royal House, and the result would tend inevitably to the disruption of the Empire...
...defeat of the Treaty. . . . The irresponsible misrepresentation, the spirit of international suspicion and ill-will, which thus far has marked the editorials of this group would be poured into every canvass. . . . This could have no other result than to breed unfounded suspicion and ill-will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty...
...adjunct of the League of Nations, not to be confused with the Red Third International, headquartered at Moscow (TIME, June 9). In Geneva, however, members of the League Secretariat tend to regard employes of the Labor Office as socially beneath them and slightly pinko, which they...
President Lowell has only recently deprecated the prevailing system of establishing the course as the unit of education instead of the student. Perhaps the two steps farther from this tendency are the tutorial system and the Divisional examinations. Both tend to minimize the value of the course as a yardstick, and in both may be the answer to intelligent ranking of a student's ability. To make the Divisional examination an oral one, and the only one of the four years is seemingly too idealistic. It implies a faith in the student to appreciate fully his ultimate aim in education...
...gathering of London newsmen in London last week, spoke the father of Britain's most newsworthy minor, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ("Lilybet") Windsor, 4. But His Royal and paternal Highness the Duke of York was not complaining. Goodnatured, he has the good sense to know that great personages tend in democracies to be public property. His mother has taught him, as she herself was taught, humility on the subject...