Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cotton Dogs. Bitterest last week were the plaints of Lancashire cotton weavers. Five thousand had already struck against the employers' new system of assigning one weaver to tend eight looms instead of four, while raising the basic wage from $9.36 weekly to only...
...Holiness defined marriage as a union primarily for the propagation and education of children, a pact of mutual faith and honor, an inviolable, indissoluble sacrament between its partners. Fervently he assailed the moral laxities, the intellectual theories, which tend to demolish this ideal. Said he: ". . . As Christ's vicar upon earth and supreme shepherd and teacher we consider it our duty to raise our voice to keep the flock committed to our care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings...
...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...
...been pointed out often enough. Dr. Henderson touches upon one danger in the process. The teacher can have only a remote interest in many of the preoccupations that relentlessly press upon the university executive officer today, and it is a natural result that the teacher should tend to be depressed into the status of a salaried "employee" of the undertaking of which he should be the center. The type of learned society which the English universities have been able to maintain and which seventy-five years ago characterized the faculties of the best American universities is dissolving under the rush...
This is true in regard to certain aspects of non-academic life which are intrinsically worth while in as much as they tend to develop the mind by stimulating intellectual curiosity. In this category fall the unrequired reading and casual interchange of ideas in conversation with others. However, if Professor Phelps means only the more active and competitive forms of outside activity his statements are rather strong...