Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solomon's; she would have founded her city on a rock and not on a desert. If any one claims that the character of the land has changed since the tenth century, B.C., they are mistaken. There is very little precipitation in Arabia, and the only things which tend to change the topography are sand storms, but these are few in number. Relics found in deep gulleys, where water would have flowed if there was much rain, are perfectly preserved; some tomb stones and monuments have been toppled over, it is true, because of the corrosion caused by sand around...
...rights of property must now give way to the rights of individuals. But, just as in the Minnesota case, he decision was given on emergency grounds, the present decision frankly bases itself on Justice Holmes' ideas of legislative supremacy. In other words, it is liberal only insofar as legislatures tend to be more liberal than courts; if legislatures become reactionary, it would be a reactionary philosophy of law. The distinction is an all-important one; it was the chief distinction between Justices Holmes and Brandeis, who were loosely grouped together as liberals, and it is the chief distinction between...
...Earl and Countess of Athlone probably will not have time to take pot luck with the citizens at the New York municipal handout stations, but that is just as well, as it might tend to give them an incorrect impression of life in the United States...
Calling attention to the fact that certain NRA codes tend to stifle technological advance, that only ? of 1% of the Federal budget is earmarked for Science, Dr. Compton predicted that any check on U. S. research would result in calamitous competition from foreign countries not so "short-sighted...
What will be the effect of such regulation on the brokers themselves? In the first place, it will tend to cramp if not prohibit the speculative accounts which have been a major source of income to so many stock jobbers. By increasing the technicalities and narrowing the field and its allure, it will cause the business as a whole to simulate the present investment council houses. In other words, it means that the arrow-collar bond-salesman who carried his trade to Westchester weekends and Long Island country clubs has had his day. The brokers of tomorrow will be soberer...