Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no sleeping of nights in the Rue Morgue. Our scene is at the midway of the Paris Fair of 1845. We enter the tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another...
When an international social-religious corporation accumulates some $318,000,000 worth of property, extends its ministrations throughout 56 lands, gains 1,600,000 members, its structure may well become as complex as that of any Big Business. So may its executives tend to be dynamic, important personages-in contrast to the London draper who founded the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844. Nothing demonstrates the Y. M. C. A.'s world position today more than the calibre of Dr. John Raleigh Mott, identified with it ever since he became a student secretary in 1888 when...
...because they fear their marks will suffer no longer can use this excuse according to an investigation conducted here by Dr. O. Myking Mehus of the social science department of the Missouri State Teachers college. His survey shows that the students who take part in the most campus activities tend to receive the highest grades while those who participate in no activity get the poorer grades...
...Country banks go in heavily for bond investments whereas city banks tend to put more & more of their cash into stock loans...
...effort to provide uniformity among the houses, emphasis should be directed toward these details. The individual characters of the houses will in any case tend to shape themselves, but smooth functioning as a unit depends on regulation of the minor points by the committee in charge of inter-house athletics. The fact that much of the organizing has been done more or less haphazardly by a few persons in each house is bound to cause divergencies. Under proper attention however, there is no reason why they should occur, or why they should not be corrected when they...