Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drinking brightens up the conversation. Physical intimacies and liberties tend to become licence and naturally lead to sex indiscretions. Petting is a vulgar practice in which decent people will not indulge...
Statements to be marked true or false: Light wines and beer are harmless. The teaching of the Bible is against the drinking of liquor in any form. All moderate drinkers tend to become heavy drinkers...
...that it is against the policy of the University to allow Harvard athletes to play in a public stadium. The proceeds of the games played in the Stadium in Cambridge go to the support of University athletics. The proposed game at the Yankee Stadium, it was pointed out, would tend to commercialize college football. While in sympathy with the movement to relieve the unemployed, officials of the Athletic Association felt that nothing could be spared from the proceeds of this season's games, since the Association feels "it would be fortunate to avoid a deficit for the year...
Committees of selection nowadays tend to put scholarly achievements first, but it is emphasized in the memorandum that there are no formal, cut-and-dried standards. The committees want above all men who show promise of attaining distinction, of doing some one thing well...
Cinemactor Chaplin's secretary sent from Los Angeles a check for ?20 for the first prize (suit, overcoat, gold watch). The same Chaplin gave the same prize in 1930. Rumored reason: to proceed with twelve baskets piled on their heads, contestants tend to manipulate their feet duckwise as Cinemactor Chaplin does. Real reason: Charles Spencer spent his urchinhood in Southwark. For a view of the race, held last fortnight at Herne Field near London, won by Porter H. Staiano...