Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Humanists do not so much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed to all movements, institutions and practices which tend to cramp and confine the human personality and prevent its proper development, but they are also actively engaged in helping those movements which tend to release, develop and expand the life...
...which should go a long way to establish the sort of success hoped for by the well-wishers of the House Plan. Virtually all of the principal departments of the University are represented, and it is obvious that every effort has been made to prevent any lopsidedness which would tend to result in special attractiveness to the students in any particular field...
...presence of Harvard men on the Vassar Campus evidently has such an avatarish note that it is not surprising the girls should tend to overemphasize the physical part of their pastimes. No wonder the shy visitors are frightened off, Perhaps more stress laid on intellectual amusements would make the guests feel more at home, but, after all, what are girls' colleges...
...Great Britain the use of electric energy is much less per capita than in the United States and the energy is not produced or sold as cheaply as here. ... A cheap and abundant supply of electricity is our aim. . . . This will have a beneficent effect upon British industry and tend to alleviate the unemployment problem...
...show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake but for the seal's. That is why she accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things tend to alienate Jason. They make him think she is not a womanly woman. He is further perturbed when, during the winter, she prefers sleeping with two sick seals. But go he will not let her. Finally it is Rita who changes Jason's mind about Zarna, thus...