Both Uses of
League of Nations
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- The stuff had to be where he could lay his hands on it at once, his clippings and pieces of paper, in folders labeled Commerce, Invention, Major Local Transactions, Crime and Gang, Democrats, Republicans, Archaeology, Literature, League of Nations.
Chpt 5League of Nations = an international organization formed after the First World War in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
- Search me, why the League of Nations, but he lived by Baconian ideas of what makes the man this and that, and had a weakness for complete information.
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Definitions:
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(League of Nations) an international organization formed after the First World War in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nationsAlthough suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and the League remained powerless. It dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, especially when not capitalized, league of nations can refer to any group of countries that are working together.