Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four walls." Instead of court-martial, the Navy Department then decided to administer this small slice of humble pie: ''You are informed . . . that the Navy Department cannot express too clearly its disapproval of the conduct of any officer of the naval establishment in making remarks which tend to embarrass the international relations of the Government. Such action on the part of an officer of your rank and length of service merits and receives the unqualified condemnation of the Navy Department and for their utterance, which you admit, you are hereby reprimanded." Observers thought they perceived the hand...
...trying for its tenth straight win of the season. The odds really are against the Crimson since practice was not resumed until Sunday while the Clubmen have had games right along. Moreover, the game is in the Arena, the favorite rink of the Clubmen. Both of these factors should tend to make the game closer and more exciting than the first one between the two teams, which Harvard...
Because Dr. Albert Einstein is the world's most celebrated living scientist, laymen tend to turn his suggestions into new Einstein theories.* Last week despatches contained accounts of a new Einstein sun theory. While talking with Mt. Wilson Observatory astronomers about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across the southern solar hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, Dr. Einstein suggested that a temperature difference between the sun's poles and equator might be the cause of the solar cyclones. Most probably, he said, the polar regions were warmer than the equatorial regions. Having given out an idea...
...Neill in the similar explorations of Strange Interlude. The play is excellently acted. Osgood Perkins, late of The Front Page and Uncle Vanya, gives a memorable bit as the hardboiled but far from insensitive secretary of the doctor. Critics who have seen all of Mr. Barry's plays tend to pronounce Tomorrow and Tomorrow his best...
...Doubtless a great number find the prospects of a fairly lucrative and respectable profession more enticing than a life devoted to human welfare, whatever the personal sacrifice. One can hardly expect any other attitude in an age when material success is so highly prized, but the situation does not tend toward keeping up the high-grade morale demanded by the Medical Profession...