Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reply, the H.Y.R.C. said that "the Council has approved a plan which would cause more work for the student, the faculty, and the administration, and which would tend to increase the already over-inflated cost of education at Harvard...
Needed: Statesmanship. Since higher corporate taxes tend to build themselves into the permanent tax structure, many businessmen probably prefer an excess profits tax which would end with the emergency. But the emergency which the U.S. now faces, as Harvard's Sumner H. Slichter pointed out, may last for a decade or more. During that time the U.S. must expand all of its resources in a production race with Russia. "We must see that our productive capacity grows rapidly," says Slichter. "An excess profits tax which discourages the growth of productive capacity ... could help us lose the contest. An excess...
...Registered nurses are prime wife material," reported Dr. Donald Cass gravely, "because the same emotional and psychological urges which lead them into the nursing profession make them excellent wives and mothers. Only about 20% of all graduate R.N.s follow their profession for any considerable length of time. They tend to be snapped up by sensible young men. A nurse learns to care for other people's pains, instead of spilling out her own problems. She takes to family life like an old hen taking over a brood of chickens. It's no wonder there's a nurse...
Most men who continue their education beyond college tend to stand quite well in their classes so that there should not be a major drop in the GSAS enrollment...
Investigations into illegal gambling in the U.S. tend to be as stylized as burlesque shows. But some are more entertaining than others; there have been few finer examples of the phenomenon than the Senate hearings on Florida crime, conducted in Miami last week by Tennessee's agile Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator and his investigators managed to half unveil such titillating glimpses of skulduggery and to inspire such righteously innocent denials that even hardened Miamians seemed fascinated...