Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands at the end of a day's shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre air of extracurricular activities, the football team which played seven games last season and lost six of them. On their part, Rochester teachers have complained that Rochester students tend to grind for marks, that a true national university should have in its college a diversified, representative student body...
...experiment of wringing blood from a stone performed by this same French Army. If a reason such as was advanced then for the invasion of prostrate Germany suffices for the French, Germany sees little reason to count on permanent privacy-a view which M. Flandin's appalling propositions tend to corroborate...
...uncongenial, and often intolerable atmosphere. Friendships made in the familiar Yard surroundings are rudely interrupted and can rarely be satisfaciorily picked up again, while the field for new friendships, is barren compared to the opportunities of the Freshman year. As a consequence, men who are invited to join clubs tend to pick up their belongings at the end of a year under the House Plan, and move out of it irrevocably...
...famed & fantastic Dusia Vinogradova, that highly temperamental young Juno of the Soviet Textile Trust who makes amazing platform boasts of the scores & scores of Soviet looms she is able to tend simultaneously, the Young Communists sneered that Soviet cinema directors are following Stakhanovite Vinogradova around, beseeching her to realize that, with her obvious talents as a highly emotional actress, she is wasting herself in Stakhanovism and should go on the Soviet screen...
...stage hands' union declared that its members would not take to the road with Jefferson Davis unless paid the regular union scale of $100 a week instead of FTP's standard $23.86. The play, they declared, was a "commercial proposition," would compete with private theatrical enterprises, tend to lower regular theatrical admission prices with...