Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unhappy Husbands tend to dislike foreigners, sick people, household pets, gold teeth, athletic directors, educational cinemas. They incline to be irritable, neurotic, seclusive, but are lonely less frequently than divorced men. They want steady, permanent work, have less initiative, resolution and self-confidence than the other groups, but like change, outside work, think well of being railway conductors. They are quick to argue but dislike argument. They study their problems alone but prefer not to take chances alone. They pretend to be radicals but are actually conservative. They like to make radio sets, repair clocks, drive automobiles; are not much...
...Adolf Hitler and other war boojums who tend to scare the British public which, when scared, always votes Conservative...
...opposing nations or groups of nations; x denotes preparedness for war, a variable; t is the length of time during which the nations have been coming together as enemies; k is a "defense-coefficient"; √ is a "fatigue and expense" coefficient; Δ "represents those dissatisfactions-with-treaties, which tend to provoke a breach of the peace...
These changes cannot be discussed without reference to the growing influence of so-called progressive education among the secondary schools, especially those which feed Harvard. As a result, more and more students will tend to enter College with baby learning in social problems, science, and history, and without the mind training which the classics and mathematics have generally been believed a inculcate. It would be oversimple to maintain that these latter offer the only road to rigorous thinking, because the oldest one. But it is unlikely that equal materials can be found in the mass of secondary schools which must...
...that prime trust debentures sell on a par with government securities, the investment trust has more economic justification. There, as underwriters and investors, the big trusts often finance an entire enterprise during the early stages when profits may be biggest but risks are always greatest. Thus speculative British securities tend to become seasoned in the portfolios of trusts, which because of their diversification can safely assume the risks, rather than in the hands of the public...