Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first score was the result of a shot by N. S. Howe from left wing which bounded off the goal-tend's stick into the cage. Shortly after the beginning of the last period, E. W. Martin scored the second goal by a long shot from the middle of the rink while a few minutes latter, Captain Harding scored the final tally on a pass from Howe...
...through his college course in three years, thereby substituting a year in school for one in college, although for the development and maturing of his capacity the latter is far the more valuable. With the long preparation now required for any professional or commercial career our youth tend to enter upon their life's work too late, and to lay the foundation for their career at a time when they should be actively engaged in it. That often creates a desire for knowledge directly useful to the neglect of despening and enlarging the outlook on life; an impatience with studies...
...permanent or not is difficult to foresee. The result will probably depend upon the extent to which men of affairs find that college graduates are more useful to them and show more resourcefulness and enterprise, with no less industry, than other men. If they do find this they will tend to prefer graduates who have made good use of their time in college...
...also almost always wrong, for no one can foresee the future. But he works on a right assumption--namely, that the future has so far always proved different from the past and that it will continue to do so. Some of us, indeed, see that the future is tending to become more and more rapidly and widely different from the past. The conservative himself furnishes the only illustration of his theory, and even that is highly inconclusive. His general frame of mind appears to remain constant, but he finds himself defending and rejecting very different things. The great issue...
...fixed as a fair rate of income. There is danger, however, that at the least sign of improvement there will be a general demand for further rate reductions. Lower transportation costs are greatly to be desired in common with lower costs of all commodities, but premature rate reductions which tend to restrict railroad earnings are likely, in the long run, to defeat their purpose, for unless the railroads are permitted sufficient net income not only to meet expenses but to provide credit for financing improvements, they will be unable to bring about the operating economies which are necessary...