Word: tend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Besides these college activities there are legions of other interests open to those who have money and the stamp of the private school. Dances, theatres, the hospitality of many hostesses, and the fellowship of a great number of pleasure-disposed undergraduate friends all tend to divert the student from his work...
...people of the Nation should continue to own the property and transact the business of the Nation. We harbor no delusions about securing perfection. . . . That system is best which gives the individual the largest freedom of action and the largest opportunity for honorable accomplishment. Such a system does not tend to the concentration of wealth but to the diffusion of wealth. Under our institutions, there is no limitation on the aspirations a mother may have for her children. This country would not be a land of opportunity ... if the people were shackled with Government monoplies...
...Petersburg is a city of homes. It has no slums. I believe that the influx of foreigners here (and I class the Jews as foreigners) is detrimental to the city and would tend to produce slums and destroy the neighborly feeling that is now an asset here. ... I know that many Jewish families plan to come here in the Fall, and that two Jews will come here to enter the real estate business. I believe the time has come to draw the line against all foreigners and make this a 100% American and Gentile city. There are inevitable slums where...
Publisher Hearst, mindful of the patrimony he must one day bequeath George, W. R. Jr., John Randolph and Elbert Hearst, bethought him the time had come when the eldest son should learn to tend his father's journalistic flocks. So George, aged 19, was marched into the offices of the San Francisco Examiner, and introduced as the new assistant publisher, acting chief. This was thought proper and fitting because the Examiner's clientele was the first flock Publisher Hearst himself tended as a youth. He had it from his father, even as George now has it from...
...commonly thought that marriage of first cousins is bad for the health of their descendants. On the other hand, students of Eugenics are convinced from the study of such cases that these marriages are not necessarily bad, except when they tend to intensify certain bad traits that may happen to be dominant in both of the persons intermarrying. Dr. Douglas P. Murphy, of Rutherforton, N. C, now describes a case of a family whose earliest known member from Germany settled in Pennsylvania in 1731. His descendants have remained to a great extent in the same locality and have remarried...