Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This radiation of energy and matter makes all the stars poorer; but it is a kind of capital levy. It is graduated sharply, so those stars which are best able to bear the burden radiate the most and tend to become equal.to the poorer ones...
...become proportionately more difficult for the underclassman to achieve that distinction which the Yale social system seems to demand. In order to make friends and become a worthy member of society, the feeling is that one must have "made" some team or competition. As a result, the ambitious tend to dissipate their energies in activities of little lasting value in order to acquire temporary recognition. Outside the circle of "big men" are those of quiet worth who have time for the pursuit of cultural interests, and leisure for the friendships and purposeless occupations that characterized college life before it become...
...proposed rate-cut conferred upon coal a special benefit out of scale with the rates given other commodities, notably agricultural. 2) It would tend to precipitate rate-cutting by railroads (Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Wheeling & Lake Erie) which carry coal to the same market from competing mines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Rate wars are against the public interest, especially Labor's, and are one of the evils the I. C. C. was founded to suppress...
...good. Since the beginning of time brave and valiant women have been abolishing these same laws. . . ." ¶ Throughout the week Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes labored manfully in subcommittee to prevent the drafting into a code of Pan-American International Law of any clause which would tend to prevent the U. S. from intervening in Latin American countries...
...system of fines used in Cambridge a century ago seems to have been a most elaborate one, according to this book. Students who did not "preserve stillness, abstaining from all noise and loud conversation, singing and all other noise, which may tend toward interruption," were fined "a penalty not exceeding $1." Also, "No student shall be an actor, or in any way a partaker in any stage plays or theatrical entertainments in the town of Cambridge, or a spectator at the same; under a penalty of $2. Nor shall he attend theatrical amusements in any other place in term time...