Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plate where its thickness could be measured, he found that the molecule had flattened out like a pancake and that the film was 15 times thinner than the spherical diameter of one molecule. "This lends support to a theory," said he, "which has recently been advanced that all proteins tend to spread out on surfaces and when they do so they all have a similar lacelike pattern...
...high standard for popular patriotic teaching in this country. The reading lists and the lectures, it is safe to assume, will have only one object: to tell the story of our country truthfully and completely, without bias for or against any group, institution, or philosophy. The result should tend to engender a wiser and more constructive patriotism. The Boston Herald
...read the Bashkirtseff Diaries, "Fountains of Youth" presents a tantalizing attraction. For the reader who has, Miss Creston offers perhaps a slightly new interpretation of the bare facts. She flavors the words of the young artist with a beauty and poetry of her own which tend to enhance the value of the original...
...teeming institutions with free or nominal tuition, the U. S. municipal universities tend to make up in headlines what they lack in number. Municipal University of Omaha caused a sensation two years ago when its President William E. Sealock poisoned himself after quarreling with the conservative townsmen on his board of trustees...
...first step towards a middle-of-the-road government is the cessation of hostilities under a board of arbitration. Immediately the foreign soldiers would tend to leave, for events show that Italy and Germany do not care what sort of a government is set up as long as it is not Communism, and that Russia feels similarly about Fascism. There is some chance that eight months of war have not wiped out all bases for a compromise by both sides aided in their negotiations by a third impartial country. As bait for maintenance of a moderate government and a real...