Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many others because of the increase in the charge, still it must be considered in making any final judgement that the Harvard student at the present moment gets more than his money's worth for his participation ticket, and that, viewed in the broader aspect, a fixed fee would tend to benefit the system of athletics at Harvard as a whole...
...vigorous as those of Dr. Wilbur's dissenting minority, the American Medical Association and the New York Medical Society. The grounds on which the Lowell Commission rejects the thought of socialized medicine are, moreover, precisely those of the Wilbur Committee's minority. These are that voluntary medical insurance systems tend to become compulsory and then result in mediocre professional service and a breach in the essentially intimate relations of doctor and patient...
...Lausanne agreement last summer came as a triumphant challenge to the defeatist attitude in regard to international conferences which had resulted from many previous failures. It is still true, however, that unless some substantial measure of agreement is arrived at beforehand, they tend to degenerate into battle-grounds of conflicting national biases...
Biology A has progressed steadily in the direction of the ideal in the past few years. Laboratories, by the elimination of an unnecessary quantity of drawing work, have been made more beneficial, but they still tend to become mere lecture periods of double duration. There is in general a great deal of duplication in the content of the reading, the lectures, and the laboratory periods. All of these are overmuch concerned with terminology, classification, and the minutiae of fact. The course would be improved by leaving such rote work to be done outside of class, reserving the lectures and section...
...what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...