Word: wont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowhere damning Mexico's Government as tyrannical-as he once was wont to- the Pope seemed to be pressing a policy of hopeful moderation which he exhibited last month in appointing a friend of President Lazaro Cardenas, Most Rev. Luis Maria Martinez, to be Archbishop of Mexico, D. F. To Mexican Catholics the Pope's advice was: "Be good to the poor, to workers, to Indians; promote application of the principles of justice and charity; eliminate abuses, at the same time guarding against violent changes which only would cause harm instead of good...
...squad as a whole is in excellent shape, according to reports from Coach Fesler. Their number now cut to 15, the squad includes a strong reserve strength which will enable the Crimson to play a harder and faster game than is their wont. In an interview yesterday evening Wes Fesler stressed the fact that "no one, including Captain Gray, is certain of retaining his position in the first string...
...possible that Eastern publications are still wont to minimize the accomplishments of a Midwestern team even though it might be defending a matter so local and provincial as a national championship...
...horrors for overburdened Freshmen, as seen by the Committee report, lies in the realm of the sciences, with Chemistry being the rank offender. Under present conditions the University Catalogue of Courses is valuable for just one thing: look in it to see what the length of your laboratory periods WONT be! University Hall is guilty of at least carelessness, if indeed nothing worse, when the Catalogue indicates three-hour laboratory periods for Chemistry A B, while experience invariably shows a period of from four and a-half to five hours to be the normal requirement. In the interest of accuracy...
...international congregation. Citizens of democratic countries are becoming increasingly huffy and high-handed with dictatorial governments like Fascism and Naziism, but to what end? Autocracies, disagreeable as they may seem to a liberal people, must be dealt with. We who have been born and bred in democratic traditions are wont to treat European dictatorships like provisional governments merely waiting for the day of democratic revelation...