Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers stood unharmed...
There are some distinct advantages to the physical side of Kirkland House. It is the smallest of the House units with 207 members. For this reason it more closely approaches the ideal size than any of the other Houses. The residents of a small unit tend to be more congenial toward one another and have the advantage of closer contact with the tutors and the House Master...
...leave food in tin cans after opening. "Under proper conditions of storage," said the Bureau, "food is perfectly safe . . . spoils no faster and no slower in the open can than in any other container." Some acid foods "like fruit and tomatoes, when stored in an open can, do tend to dissolve iron. This may give the food a sightly metallic taste that is not harmful. If the label on the can advises removing the contents as soon as the can is opened, it is because the canners think that an open can, partly filled with food, is not attractive...
Whether Dunster House is to be severely criticized for what has been called indifference to inter-House activities, but which may be more suitably interpreted as independence, is doubtful, for in the course of time the Houses are bound to tend towards autonomy, and their own distinctive characters. There is perhaps more cause for alarm in that Dunster House, in its internal activities, has not taken fuller advantage of the opportunities which life in the Houses was intended to provide...
...that the House Plan and the tutorial system have done away to a considerable extent with the disadvantages of a large college should not be taken as carte blanche for enlarging the College indiscriminately. To try to extend the benefits of a Harvard education to all qualified comers would tend inevitably to impair those benefits...