Word: pedantic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of international co-operation. His unyielding stand against modifying or attaching reservations to the covenant of the League was based, we may reasonably suppose, upon his conviction that the avowed enemies of some of the clauses of the covenant were really seeking to find a way to attack the life...