Word: tend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also a sad fact of history that when we think of the great names, they tend to be men," she said. If she had chosen a woman of the century, Kaminer said, she might have selected Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood...
...time of sectarian divisiveness, Brooks urged unity and common cause in service to humanity. He proposed that the University construct a building, which, he said, "should be generously used for all the various interests of university life, and should unite and strengthen many undertakings which now rather tend to divide the forces which make for good among the students." After Brooks' death in 1893, a group of alumni who followed and admired his teachings raised funds to build Phillips Brooks House...
...full range of their remarkable endeavors in public service. We trust that all members of the community will join in cooperating with her, and with us, to move into a future that seeks, in the words of Phillips Brooks, to "unite and strengthen many undertakings which now rather tend to divide the forces which make for good among the students...
...species, by combining Eli's greater social proclivity with our far greater academic intensity, and their more brightened communal awareness with our overdeveloped sense of independence. Perhaps then we would have a species that will be fit not only for survival, but for the emotional rewards we tend to do without...
...study found that female shift workers tend to smoke and drink more and are more overweight than non-shift workers, factors which increase the risk for heart disease, Kawachi said...