Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papers. During his years in Parliament Lord Beaverbrook did little else except tend his private fortune. In 1917, his appetite for the newspaper business whetted by his work in the Ministry of Information, he bought controlling interest in the doddering Daily Express for $85,500. The same afternoon he had to draw $250,000 more from the bank to pay pressing liabilities. Lord Northcliffe, then at the height of his spectacular career, advised him to stay out of Fleet Street, warned: "You'll lose everything you have." This dare Beaverbrook took...
...case against the chains rests on the familiar charges that they tend to drive independents out of business, force farm ers to take lower prices for their goods, foster monopoly, and bleed the communi ties where their stores are located in favor of absentee owners. To these assertions the chains have answers authenticated by impartial groups ranging from The Harvard Bureau of Research to the Federal Trade Commission...
Japanese statesmen tend to become highly intoxicated on moderate victories. Last week the fall of Canton and Hankow acted on Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and the Japanese Foreign Office like a triple round of old-fashioneds at a meeting of a Browning Club. It is no new thing for Japanese jingoes outside the Cabinet to boast that in a few years Japan will kick the West out of the East, but for the Premier and Foreign Office to go so far as they went in Tokyo last week was unprecedented...
...well-established fact of genetic science is that certain characteristics tend to be transmitted in groups. In Dr. Dunn's rats, for example, all of the soft-skeletoned individuals also have pink eyes...
Religious denominations, he said at St. Pual's Mthodist Episcopal Church, resemble political parties and governments in that they tend to get "hardening of the arteries...