Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houses. Eliot also has the largest suites, with many of them connected by easily-opened fire doors. Although the overcrowding has hit Eliot as much as any other college dormitory, it seems nowhere near so uncomfortable because the suites were so big originally. Big rooms, of course, tend to generate parties and bull session, which have been an Eliot trademark...
Faculty members in Eliot form a strong part of the House structure. Its 26 tutors (nine of them resident) tend towards the Humanities, with a concentration of Government, History, and History and Lit. scholars. They form a congenial group, perhaps because Eliot is the only House where the old tutors elect the new ones (in all the other Houses they are appointed by the Master.) Finley himself knows every House member, appears at most sports events, and is a powerful cohesive influence in an naturally unwieldly House...
When Co-Authors Ernest Havemann and Mrs. Patricia Salter West examined the information furnished by more than 9,000 graduates, they found firm support for some widespread beliefs (e.g., "the cities - and especially the big cities - have a pronounced attraction for college graduates"), but also learned that the facts tended to puncture some equally well-established myths - such as the fiction that wealthier college graduates tend to have fewer children...
...issue of your esteemed paper for 20 February last, Professor George Sarton expresses concern lest the investigations of the Congressional Committee on un-American Activities tend to stifle freedom of expression in our universities. In your issue of 27 February I read of the punishment of two undergraduates for the somewhat childish prank of burning a flery cross. It is evident that this was done as a joke, but, if it had been done seriously, the action of the authorities would seem to be such as to discourage freedom of speech and expression of opinion. In his revealing little book...
...opposed by words than by tanks and armies. Between the two evils, he would choose the man who would advise less spending for defense and whose presence in the White House might divide intead of unite countries of the West. Stalin's choice would be the candidate who would tend to withdraw from the burdens of a vigorous foreign policy, provided that one of the candidates would be that kind of president. It is almost tragically paradoxical that Stalin's moves on the international chessboard can make Americans vote the way he desires, even though his choice would inevitably...