Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifetime of research never came across a single shmoo) provides an inkling of what might yet happen. "Society . . . finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism . . . There is too much . . . means of subsistence . . . The productive forces at the disposal of society [i.e., the shmoos] no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property...
...other lands the German Jews tend to look upon themselves as the aristocrats of Jewry (although they give precedence to the Sephardic families from Spain and Portugal). In Palestine the recent German aliyah is looked down upon and made the butt of the same kind of joke that German Jews in the U.S. used to hurl at their Russian brethren...
High Ceiling. Real estate mortgages hit a record high of $33 billion, so the Federal Reserve Board thought it was time to tighten credit. It warned that an increase in mortgages would tend to raise house prices (already up 13% over last year) without bringing new building, which is limited by material shortages...
...Bibi seldom speaks of modern art: "I think nothing of it," says he sternly. "It's merely playing infant, kicking, screaming and smashing, or daubing and kneading with paint and clay. As long as man has two eyes and ears, one set of vital organs, he will tend to return to the classical...
Communists-like some Christians-tend to divide the world into white sheep and black goats (their absolutely righteous selves and their absolutely unrighteous opponents). But Christianity, unlike Communism, contains its own sources of self-correction: "Christians . . . should know that the line that is most significant is not to be drawn between themselves and their opponents, but rather right down through their own souls...