Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helicon Hall Colony. Site was an expensive Mission-type building at Englewood, N. J. above the Hudson, which had been erected for a boys' school. Radical literary folk were welcomed, the idea behind the establishment being bonhomie and laissez faire. Sinclair Lewis went down from Yale to tend the furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt and sandals. The place burned down one March night in 1907, killing a drunken carpenter. An arson...
Marshall Field the merchant would not have approved. He stuck to storekeeping, detested sidelines. But he also drove to work in a spider whereas his namesake favors speed boats and airplanes. The Philharmonic's new president did not at tend the season's opening last week (see col. 1). He was shunning reporters who might question him on his divorce...
...home an understanding of our life and institutions such as only this kind of meeting may give. This example is a fitting one for other nations. Groups of students from every nation would benefit greatly from such opportunities, and the understanding received by their contact with other peoples would tend to bind all nations in bonds of understanding and sympathy, so rare in world politics today...
...left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does not seem inevitable. Both candidate, club member, and undergraduate would be better for a frank evaluation by an organization with no votes and no political fences to tend. Nevertheless, the important thing is that the Liberal Club has brought forth a new feature which promises greatly to add to its usefulness to the college as well as to its members...
...predicted that the effect of the stiff competition among these groups will tend to force prices down in an era of generally rising prices. Observers believe, however, that this will not have the effect of giving Harvard men the benefit of continued very low prices, because the profit to the student organization is practically entirely in the nature of a sales commission, and the lower the basic prices go, the smaller becomes the margin available for commission allowance by the commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with...