Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purposes of teaching, there are three critical differences between sciences and humanities. Science tends to be much more concerned with the ordering and manipulation of information than with the information to be handled, while the humanities tend to be rather more concerned with the portion of history, the system of philosophy, or the period of literature under discussion. Science tends to be entirely preoccupied with the present, while the humanities is built upon a concern for works of the past--the concern of a physicist with Newton has almost nothing in common with the concern of an English scholar with...
...bracket, the death rate of men who started smoking after 25 was 1.42 times that of nonsmokers; among those who had begun as striplings under 15, it was 2.29 times as high. The higher death rate can be traced, said Dr. Hammond, to three underlying factors: 1) precocious smokers tend to inhale more deeply, 2) they smoke more cigarettes a day, and 3) by the time they reach middle age, they have been smoking for many more years...
...Testament. This extraordinary book pulses with the record of stirring events that took place 1,500 years before Herodotus. Armies march and kings conspire in its lively pages. Prophets thunder their warnings; courtiers and diplomats conspire subtly. Commoners love and hate, worship and sin, bear children and tend their vineyards...
...magazine itself leans heavily toward architecture and city planning, containing only one article on the Fine Arts, but it does not suffer from the academic narrowness it criticizes. Actually, it over-reacts against that narrowness. The authors tend toward a pretentiously cosmic viewpoint...
...section men is only a symptom of a much more serious attention to teaching as a whole. As the report pointed out, the quality of teaching fellows varies greatly from department to department; it varies even more, however, from course to course. Professors who take their own teaching seriously tend to demand similar devotion from their teaching fellows, while those who regard time spent in the classroom as distasteful or unimportant are unlikely to require rigid standards in their assistants...