Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While watching television, customers tend to drink more, but slower. Result: just as many drunks as ever...
Other, less concrete issues fall into the beam of Mr. Bender's searchlight. The fact, for instance, that students "are not very hopeful of the good times coming and tend to concentrate on digging individual foxholes in he shape of training for careers" stands opposed to the non-professionalized aims of the general education plan. This conflict and the issues of tuition and extra-curricular life are the biggest but by no means the only questions raised by Mr. Bender's "Report," which covers everything from the problems of the married veteran to those of the engineer who has forgotten...
...press has carried little news of this Russian purge. On the other hand, it has carried too much news about the alleged Nazi resurgence. These exaggerated reports tend to detract attention from the real issue, which today is not Naziism, but current ideological, economic and diplomatic competition between East and West...
...support their stand on the topic: "Received. That labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry," the affirmative pointed to the success of labor-management committees during the war. The affirmative also claimed that giving labor a share in management would tend to unite capital and labor, diminish industrial strife, and put an end to the possibility of class warfare...
...lakes may be an accumulation of thaw water at the end of the Antarctic summer. But there was at least a chance that they are heated from below. (The geyser region of Yellowstone is slightly heated in this way, and many parts of the world have warm springs which tend to keep lakes from freezing.) The romantics and the tale-spinners could take it from there...