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Word: tended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general psychology of our Chinese people today can be described in one word: listlessness. Our officials tend to be dishonest and avaricious; the masses are undisciplined and callous; adults are ignorant and corrupt; youth becomes degraded and intemperate; the rich become extravagant and luxurious, the poor become mean and disorderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Harvard's Yacht Club, Edward D. Fullerton, Jr. '37, Commodore, unfuris its sails in a Frost-bite Regatta with ten other college crows in the Charles River Basin at one o'clock Sunday. Edward B. Hutton '39, will tend the sheets in Fullerton's dinghy, while Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, and James A. Rousmaniere '40, of local and Long Island Sound fame respectively, man a second boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frost-Bite Regatta Sunday Includes Ten College Crews | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

...combination of prejudice and reason. It cannot be denied that men, trained to think and observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place of blind and spiteful off-hand judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RES PUBLICA | 10/29/1936 | See Source »

...hoped by University Hall that the restriction on the size of the Freshman class will tend to decrease the great demand for House rooms. It seems probable, however, that until another House is built several hundred will find themselves out in the cold every year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 274 DENIED ADMISSION TO HOUSES THIS YEAR | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...directly affected almost the entire world, and attempts to answer the question whether it has done the world more good than harm. Part I is devoted to a discussion of various theoretical issues raised by current experiences with exchange depreciation. The most important question raised is whether depreciation tends to raise prices in the markets of countries off gold or whether it tends more to depress prices in world markets. The weight of evidence is that the national prices tend to rise; as depreciation becomes the rule and not the exception, the pressure of world prices subsides; and even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Urges Benefits of Money Depreciation In New Volume Published by University Press | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

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