Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine of opinion," says New Republic Editor and Financial Angel Michael Straight, "has a rough time nowadays. You tend to restrict your opinions more & more to make them coincide with the opinions of your readers and sometimes you find you have restricted yourself to rather small groups." As proof, Editor Straight could point to his own magazine. Once a rallying point for liberals, the New Republic has steadily restricted its opinions while swinging from the New Deal to Henry Wallace, and back to the Fair Deal when Wallace became a presidential candidate. Result: its group of readers...
...speak, and his argument was just the sort of thing his audience understood. "Guests of Norfolk, voluntary and involuntary," he began, "a free national health service will not make medical services better, but worse. The neurotics and malingerers will swamp our doctors and make it impossible for them to tend the really sick. I have been an unwilling native in a socialist Utopia for some time, and I know it will not work . . . This talk of free service is just political camouflage...
...Anaconda plant should be producing at the rate of 72,000 tons a year by 1953, soon after the Hungry Horse Dam is fully completed. Feischmann could not see any threat of monopoly; the new plant, said he, would produce less than 4% of all U.S. aluminum, tend to increase competition, not reduce...
After classes, students often congregate in a green-cushioned lounge on the basement floor of Gordon Hall. Bull sessions there cover the usual subjects, but women and wild parties are rarely mentioned. Since 14 of the students are married and most are well over 20 years old, they tend to discuss individual problems and current affairs...
Science & Genesis. The Pope noted that Astronomer Edwin P. Hubble of California's Mt. Wilson Observatory has observed that "galaxies tend to double the distance between themselves every 1,300 years," which suggests that "some 10 billion years back in time these galaxies were all compressed in a relatively close space. This and the calculable age of the earth's solid crust and the age of meteorites and the oscillations of star systems add nothing to what the Christian learns in the first verse of Genesis...