Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human nature, in order to be studied, must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play was all about...
...wherein he thinks he will be congenial, or which appeals to his particular tastes. Consequently there are likely to be free and easy relations between the members of any one particular college. This situation of course does not appear in the few larger colleges where cliques tend to appear just as in a class at Harvard...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alice Gwynne), largest individual taxpayer in Newport: "I wrote a letter to the Mayor of Newport protesting against the proposed Dempsey-Wills boxing bout to be held there next summer. Said I: 'I strongly disapprove of the project. I feel that it would not tend to the improvement nor advancement of the city...
...closely geared themselves to collegiate requirements and methods; but this is certainly not true of the majority of public high schools, and since a large proportion of the entering classes does come from public rather than private preparatory schools, it is imperative that some step he taken which will tend to coordinate the functions of the high school and the college. There are then two alternatives for the preparatory schools: either they will assume the initiative and send men to college adequately fitted to undertake the first year of college study, or the college will so devise the first year...
...failure of the spectacular Captain Hall to rally in the third fracas was entirely due to Jenkins, the genius who presides over the Yale net. Cumings played his best game of the year last Monday against the Tiger, but he is still a long way from the Blue goal-tend, and will have to sharpen his eye tonight if he expects to keep all the Green rubbers out of the strings...