Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Pine Camp. Long after the magnates have returned to their less conspicuous affairs, the impression lingers that somehow President Coolidge is Prosperity. Last week, Mr. Coolidge announced that he would not take active part in the November Congressional campaigns, that prosperity was still the main issue. Political observers tend to agree that the President has executed a masterly summer campaign...
Fortnight ago, near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, Japanese truck-gardener hanged himself to tend his storm-killed horse in another world (TIME, July...
Misaji Kawahara came and saw. Misaji had loved the poor horse well. Loosening the halter he tied its free end to a branch twelve feet from the ground, slipped the noose about his own neck, slid off the branch to tend his horse in another world...
...blame for this uninspiring denouement may lie with the student who prepared his work poorly or it may be laid to the essentially unimaginative character of examinations. Any set of questions to be answered within a short time tend to put a premium either on uninspired mimicry or a certain superficial facility with pen and mind...
...educational system is the target for reformers of all kinds. We try desperately with tests, informational and psychological, to reduce the human element, much after the manner of railroad transportation. One result is that we tend to emphasize the knowledge that can be tested conveniently. It is far easier to see if the child knows the words and dates of so many authors, than it is to find out whether he has absorbed the bases of a real literary appreciation and taste. This is true to a greater extent even in music, as Dr. Davison shows in this book...