Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the donator has left room for a liberal interpretation of its provisions. Although in the past the lectures have varied wided between poetry and art, the subjects themselves have not been ones which were entirely new to the Harvard curriculum. This fact, of course, did not necessarily tend to lessen their interest of value. However when such a relatively unappreciated field as Icelandic literature is brought before the public, it is an indication that the Norton lectures will become of still further service in the coming winter. There are few opportunities for the general student to come in contact...
Also, the ability to think on one's feet, to pay out an ideational line of thought one length ahead of its conversion into speech is coming to be more and more essential to the average undergraduate, as the bulk of college graduates tend increasingly to become salesmen and executives, instead of professors, doctors, architects, lawyers, or divines. By putting a premium on the nicely articulate expression of one's own thoughts instead of the inclusive repetition of the thoughts of other men, as is usually the case in, classroom recitation, the undergraduate would acquire an ease...
...believe that this article is rather misleading to the public, as it would tend to give the impression that, the Schweitzer mill is the only mill equipped to make cigaret tissue, when as a matter of fact, there are three in this country; namely, Smith Paper Co., Lee, Mass., Schweitzer and ourselves. All three of these mills for several years past have been producing identical grades of paper...
...Mayor should give himself time to do his job properly," said Dictator Bernard J. Newman of Philadelphia's Housing Association, last week. "There should be: 1) a Secretary of Eats to at- tend all dinners for the Mayor; 2) a Secretary of Speak to utter all the usual bombast expected from a Mayor; 3) a Secretary of Handshakes to give the glad hand to visiting delegations; 4) a Secretary of Poses to satisfy the craving to see the Mayor's picture; 5) a Secretary of Travel to go about the country for the Mayor...
There is an ant queen of another species who, contemplating a nuptial flight, assembles a horde of worker-ants around her, carries them around on her strong legs to care for the children when they shall be born. The children are so numerous and tiny she cannot tend them herself...