Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This transformation is difficult to explain, and Margaret Cole not only avoids it, but seems unaware of the challenge it presents to the belief that socialism can be achieved peacefully within the framework of political democracy. The present British government would tend to substantiate Beatrice Webb's earlier theories, but it is still too early to evaluate the permanency of her contribution...
Tasty Schools. By treaty the U.S. was to blame. There were no schools at all for 14,000 out of 20,000 school-age Navajos. But the nomadic Navajos were also at fault: they took their children with them to tend sheep flocks. To round up students from a 50-mile radius, the day schools depended on buses. But poor roads, flash floods and wartime breakdowns held up the buses. Of 50 schools, 20 were closed during World War II. Chee says: "The schools tasted good. We want more...
...lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value at all, and it is a characteristic of the Scottish people to tend to deify the things they must put up with...
...interregnum between no price controls whatever and the date when the new O.P.A. gets its mace of full authority, various new ceilings as adjusted by O.P.A. officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties...
...inflation, to a certain extent, by restricting many exports (see Foreign Trade) while it continued to buy all it could in world markets. But as wealthier nations export inflation, by buying more and selling less in the world market, competitive revaluation, like competitive devaluation 15 years ago, would tend to push the whole world higher into the stratosphere of inflation...