Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one of many amazingly long yesterday, which can be explained the hot Penn courts. Squash balls become livelier as the temperature rises, and rallies tend to lengthen since winning drop shots usually become setups. This makes it easy for hard hitters, such Bill Morris, Todd Wilkinson, and Craig , who all won decisive victories for Harvard...
...preventive or cure is in sight, despite a great deal of work and even more folklore. As people grow older they naturally tend to have fewer colds -and therefore, says Andrewes, they tend to find "proof" that their own pet precautions really work. Useful vaccines may eventually be developed, but the difficulty is that there are too many cold viruses to put them all in one vaccine. What is needed is something like the influenza vaccine, a combination of the strains known to be prevalent at a given place and time. For the present, even that type cold vaccine...
...year-old farm and invested $25,000 into converting it to a dormitory-style lodge with private's rooms. They raised the capital through savings, friends, banks and notes from local businessmen. As late as Nov. 30, they were still spending every free hour they had to tend to the many frustrating details that develop when a "crash" building project is undertaken...
...emphysema, not only do many of the individual alveoli lose their elasticity, so that they do not exchange enough carbon dioxide and oxygen, but much of the lung wall itself loses its stretch. The lungs tend to remain inflated. What the patient is aware of, said Dr. Ebert, is shortness of breath-especially when he begins to exert himself. The condition gets progressively worse until the victim finds himself winded after less and less exertion. Ultimately he is out of breath even when sitting still...
Fischer also recommends that the large universities adopt Swarthmore's system of experts from outside the college giving course examinations. He said this would provide a greater cohesion between faculty and students and would tend to reward those professors whose students performed well...