Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spreading Out. Corporations tend to sponsor home-town culture, such as a symphony or art museum, partly because this attracts the more intelligent employees they are searching for; across the U.S., no fewer than 70 cultural centers are under way or planned, most of them heavily supported by businessmen. But corporations are beginning to spread out into broader areas, taking a more active part in the world of culture. Corning Glass invites philosophers and writers to periodic conferences, one of which will be held in May to discuss the problems of Africa. Ford Motor, whose $6,500,000 company-contributions...
...Tutors often remain together or stay in then rooms, and are inaccessible to the student. Nonresident tutors rarely appear in the dining halls, many coming only to the weekly staff luncheons. Recent efforts to expand House tutorials and seminars have been plagued by faculty and student indifference. Finally, students tend to stay in cliques rather than to take advantage of the heralded "diversification" within the Houses...
...jobs are as creative as child rearing, but too many of us tend to belittle it "because anybody can have a baby," Dr. Benjamin M. Spock told an audience at Lowell House last night...
...there are many drugs that help to bring on sleep, but these also affect different people in different ways. Ironically, some of the best-known pep pills put some people to sleep. Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics. Virtually all the tranquilizers tend to make falling asleep easier, but their mechanisms vary...
...best position for falling asleep, though the Encyclopaedia Britannica says all humankind adopts an approximately horizontal position. This is in contrast with birds, which sleep standing on one leg, with beak tucked under wing. Most people sleep on their sides, spending more time on one than the other, and tend to bend the hips and draw up the knees a little, the better to relax. Sleeping supine is likely to cause snoring, which may wake the sleeper himself, besides disturbing others...