Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pronouncements tend to show that "big business" will be served up as the piece de resistance next fall. The alleged laxity of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and the protectionist bias oft Tariff Commission provide traditional issues with social implications wider than the mere corruption charge...
...acquisition, or the use of such stock by the voting or granting of proxies or otherwise, may be to substantially lessen competition between such corporations, or any of them, whose stock or other share capital is so acquired, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce...
...decreases as the size of a group increases (for example a group of 50 hens in a pen will lay more eggs per hen than a group of 100 hens) ; 2) that, as if well known, wealth reduces the birth rate; 3) that poverty and hard conditions of life tend to increase reproductive activity. In this connection he produces statistics of the sex activity of some 250 married men at various ages. At all periods of life the average number of coitions per month was greater for the merchant and banker group than for the professional men, and greater...
...they [the Baptists]are poor people, and those among them who acquire property tend, like the rich Methodists, to ooze into the Protestant Episcopal Church, which is fashionable everywhere in the Republic save in rural New England." In such brazen tone he went his way. "The Baptists say they have 8,000,000 members in the United States. This includes 3,000,000 colored brethren, who are recognized as having souls but are not allowed to come to white churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep...
conduct institutions conceived quite oppositely from Andover. These schools early assumed the parental relation with their boys and set out to see that each individual should have "such esthetic culture and accomplishments as shall tend to refine the manners and elevate the taste, together with careful moral and religious instruction." They were schools founded (St. Paul's was the model for St. Mark's and partly for Groton) to accommodate wealthy and socially scrupulous families. All have anxious and extensive waiting lists. Among Bostonians at least, Groton may be said to have achieved the loftiest prestige of this kind...