Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also asked the Admissions Director whether the fact that 50 percent of College students come from private preparatory schools did not tend to exclude Negro students...
...Happy childhood is a myth," declared Miss Freud. Adults, she continued, tend to idealize their early years. Citing her wartime experience with two and three year-old "toddlers," Miss Freud stated that these children were more often fighting and in tears than completely satisfied...
...Lawton, who will succeed Pace, is a 49-year-old career civil servant who joined the Government at 19 as a Census Bureau clerk, has been Pace's Assistant Director of the Budget. ¶ Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 51, quit to "get a rest," tend to his own business (mines, lumber, and a fine stable of race horses...
...exert pressure on the newspapers. Nevertheless, such stories as the debate between Paul Blanshard and Father George H. Dunne at Harvard in February over the political power of the church are virtually ignored (only the Globe printed a story on the debate). Such sacred cows, real or fancied, tend to blunt the nose-for-news of even the best reporters...
...these barriers of economic nationalism were taken down, the most efficient firms would survive in each industry, and each nation would tend to specialize in some phase of the total economy, as does each state in this country. Such an organization would, according to its American proponents, lead to a "more dynamic, expanding economy...