Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid putting on the uniform again, but simply to defend the reputations of those of us who are 40 and over, I protest we are still potential. The late Arthur Brisbane argued and the still kicking Dr. Richard T. Ely (80 plus) is demonstrating that older sires tend to produce intellectually superior offspring...
Psychologically it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the professional philosopher and friend to work toward the same ends as the University. The least his paying guests could ask would be passing grades, and in their natural conflict with "the system" he would tend inevitably to said with them. And should a beautiful friendship really evolve, he would not be bound by the ethical restrictions of faculty members...
Worst of the problem children which harass a college curriculum are the survey courses, and at Harvard they are holy terrors. Through the years they have constantly grown until today they tend, because of their own unmanageable hugeness, to fall apart into disunified sections whose only point of similarity is subject material...
Denver has a city ordinance banning movies that show lynchings or tend to incite race hatred. When Manager Robert Allen of South Denver's Jewell Theatre announced the 24-year-old film classic The Birth of a Nation as last week's attraction, he was warned that the ordinance would be invoked against him. He went ahead anyhow, at week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side...
James P. Derham was trained by his father to head the company, Enos J. to design bodies and Walter to tend to the shop. They do three or four big jobs a month, keep some 30 men busy in their stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open...