Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world price of silver will not necessarily rise to that level, will continue to be fixed by supply & demand. The proclamation will, however, remove 24,000,000 ounces (the U. S. quota) from world supply. This is about 20% of world production. This will undoubtedly tend to raise the world price but if private hoards of silver begin to leave India and China (which hold 600,000,000 oz.) or if Manhattan's silver speculators decide to dump their 100,000,000 oz. holdings, the inflationary effects of the new policy will be blunted at the start...
Last week the 125 chaplains who tend the 130,000 souls of the U. S. Army were given a new head. Appointed as their chief for a four-year-term was Lieut.-Colonel Alva Jennings Brasted, 57, of the Third Infantry at Fort Snelling, Minn. Graduated from Des Moines College, the University of Chicago and its Divinity School, Chief Chaplain Brasted was a Baptist minister before he entered the Army as a first lieutenant in 1913. He served at U. S. forts and camps, went to France in 1918, returned to minister at more forts and camps. A cultured, diffident...
...record of the tutors' tables, of their healthy life and stubborn, imposed death, indicates that such tutors are in the minority. The graduate students, whose interest is less direct, cannot be expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty-one will tend to follow their example. In this manner beer will divide the houses, and in so dividing them it will assume a vast and obvious importance to which its own merit would never entitle...
...meaning of the word 'obscene' as legally defined by the courts is: 'Tending to stir the sex impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts.' . . . After I had made my decision in regard to the aspect of Ulysses now under consideration I checked my impressions with two friends. . . . I was interested to find that they both agreed with my opinion: that reading Ulysses in its entirety . . . did not tend to excite sexual impulses or lustful thoughts but that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary...
...considered opinion after long reflection is that while in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac...