Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the difficulties of the problems we have, I ask you this one question: If each of us in his own mind would dwell more upon those simple virtues-integrity, courage, self-confidence and unshakable belief in his Bible-would not some of these problems tend to simplify themselves? Would not we, after having done our very best with them, be content to leave the rest with the Almighty, and not to charge all our fellow men with the fault of bringing us where we were and are? I think it is possible that a contemplation, a study...
Three Gifts. Abul Huda Pasha had left out, because the deputies well knew, the pressures that aggravated Talal's illness and would tend to frustrate any King of Jordan. The young kingdom set up by the British in 1920 contains 37,000 desert miles, only a fifth of which is habitable. Jordan depends almost entirely on a British subsidy of ?7,500,000 annually to run its government, and its British-trained Arab Legion...
...rising sun casts a shadow of the Friar's Heel on the great altar. Astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer has calculated that on Midsummer Day, 1680 B.C., the sun rose directly over the special marking notch that can still be seen on the Heel. Libby's measurements tend to confirm Sir Joseph's guess: that Stonehenge was built about 3,800 years...
University and Cambridge authorities, viewing the proceedings less favorably, have reacted vociferously and violently. They tend to forget the advantages of rioting, however, for if the police weren't on student firing lines, they'd be out of work...
...about psychoanalysis is a dangerous thing; parents pick up a smattering of the subject and misuse it, said Manhattan's Dr. Mary O'Neil Hawkins. Parents who would spoil their children anyway now spoil them more, and think they have a scientific basis for doing so. They tend to intellectualize faults and vainly try to use reason to bring obedience. This is worse than simply laying down the law to small fry: "You can't do this because I don't like it." ¶ Baby Expert Benjamin Spock went further: there should be a clear distinction...