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- English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)
How To Use Tawney In A Sentence
- RH Tawney.had the measure of this kind of bobbins about 80 years ago: "While natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source, not in individual differences, but in its own organisation. The Guardian World News
- When the groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil was pulled from his fake tree trunk in Pennsylvania on February 2, he saw his shadow.
- Tawney formulated Labour Party education policy in 1922.
- After "Groundhog Day" came out, the crowds in Punxsutawney grew to the tens of thousands, who thronged to catch a glimpse of Punxsutawney Phil, the famed groundhog, as he makes his prediction.
- What is magical about Punxsutawney is not just the movie or the mythical 127-year-old marmot known as the "prognosticator of prognosticators. Stuart Muszynski: Punxsutawney Values: What America Can Learn From Groundhog's Day
- Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert," wrote the great economic historian R.H. Tawney in 1926. Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
- Tawney perceived the same problem throughout his career of commentary on the education system.
- Tawney formulated Labour Party education policy in 1922.
- The review is a tremendous tribute to Tawney as a historian, his majestic style and his biting wit.