Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail wiggles back & forth, the fish is swimming. Why not force him, by electricity, to wiggle into...
Without the sobering sight of Vienna, a tourist attending the Salzburg Festival would tend to overlook the dilemma of Austria, for there he would hear one of the world's finest orchestras, some of the best singers, and see good theater in a city which lost only its railway station in the war. Openly buying at the blackmarket exchange rate, he might not notice that lemons are unobtainable because the legal rate of 10 schillings to the dollar is prohibitive to Italian exporters. He would not realize that Austria is a thoughfare for refugees from Eastern Europe. He would...
...small job," the Commissioner said, "I'll tend to it myself...
...lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
Retailers using the Meter-Matic plug the slogan: "No money down, as little as 25? a day!" Merchants who have attached meters to stoves, washers and television sets have run into a snag: customers tend to feed the meter only when the appliance is in use. But shrewd retailers have gotten around that by attaching the meter to the refrigerator, no matter which appliance is bought. Refrigerators are different: they have to keep going...