Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible Congress should decide definitely on a lease of the plant before the end of the present session. 2) Some provision should be in the lease so that the lessee would be required to manufacture nitrates as well as electric power, because the manufacture of nitrates would not only tend to give farmers cheaper fertilizer but be absolutely vital to the country in time of war, since nitrates are essential to the production of explosives and the U.S. has almost no domestic source of nitrates...
...Then, there is also the necessary correlation of subjects which tend toward broadening the intellects of the students. The philosophy, literature, religion and arts, and the industry of a certain period of time are all closely connected with each other, and form a psychic and mental unity. This correlation of subjects opens the eyes of the students to this fact...
...proposed consolidation would not decrease competition because the roads to be merged are not rivals; on the contrary, it would tend to increase competition with the other great systems ( N. Y. C., Penna...
...were just as near an Alpine type as a Nordic.* He is mesocephalic (medium-skulled, between "long" and "round" or "short." He is tallest of all the large groups of white men. His hair is medium in color, rarely bright blond in adults, almost never black. His eyes tend to be "medium," that is, light brown rather than dark brown or bright blue. He is sinewy and slender in youth, not rawboned and gangling or fat and pudgy...
...adverse ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission with regard to the Van Sweringen railroad merger will probably tend to clarify matters in further transportation consolidation," Professor W. J. Cunningham, Professor of Transportation in the Business School, told a CRIMSON reporter last night in an interview on the recently proposed Nickel Plate merger. "The railroad builders can now know what to expect from the Commission, and thus have a better idea of how to proceed. More over it must be clearly understood that it was the financial and not the transportation side of the affair to which the Commission objected...