Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standing of every House member. The tutors also make many acquaintances with the students, and take most of their meals with them. The associates, however, have done little or nothing for the House except attend occasional high table dinners. The students probably represent a good "cross-section", although they tend to be studious, as witnessed by the fact that of the forty men elected to Phi Beta Kappa last autumn, Lowell claims eleven...
...irritating step in economic warfare which will tend to destroy friendly international relations. . . . It is an unwarranted invasion by the Government into the field of private business. . . . It is a return to the obsolete system of barter and involves discrimination and retaliation. . . . It is arbitrary and unfair. It nullifies our existing trade treaties. So protesting vigorously against it, I speak for 800,000 businessmen of the United States...
Contrary to rumor, however, the quarters of the victory and eagle variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...
...develop the free institutions of a self-governing republic . . . that she would require many years of both economic and political effort to that end and that her progress would necessarily be slow. . . . The treaty was thus a covenant ... in deliberate renunciation of any policy of aggression which might tend to interfere with that development." Had Japan by its actions in Manchuria and at Shanghai violated this Nine-Power Treaty? Secretary Stimson apparently thought it had for he wrote: "Recent events . . . have tended to bring home the vital importance of the faithful observance of the covenants. . . . Regardless of cause or responsibility...
...retrenchment and reorganization. Agricultural colleges are the logical nucleus for the development of such a movement. Certainly the examples of cultural state colleges in the west should suffice to convince them that they can perform no comparable service by the adoption of an A.B. degree. Such a course would tend to swell the growing number of the educated unemployed who have long since discovered that a sheepskin may cover a shorn lamb...