Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College is "much nearer the issue of expansion than we tend to think," Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, said yesterday. "There is a good chance that two of three Houses included in the Program for Harvard College may be used to enlarge the student body...
...Said German Scientist Hermann Oberth, who had worked on the U.S. missile program: "The Russian rockets remind me of simple alarm clocks-you can throw them on the wall and they'll keep on ticking. American missiles are like expensive ladies' wrist watches that look nice but tend to stop frequently." An old missile hand at Cape Canaveral turned to a football figure. The Russians, said he, are now leading in moon shots by 7 to 6-they have converted after the touchdown. He did not need to add that, operationally speaking, missilery is perhaps the one game...
...Japanese religions seem to tend towards the mystical, Dr. Hideo Kishimoto, head of the Department of Religious Studies of Tokyo University, said yesterday. "They have little to do with the social conduct and ethical principles...
...from overthrow by Nasserite rebels. Results: the U.S. 1) stabilized the situation in Lebanon for a few crucial months at least, 2) demonstrated to its allies worldwide that it was able and ready to support them, 3) showed above all that the Russians, when confronted by U.S. deterrent power, tend to back down. The U.S. also ordered air cover for British airborne landings in Jordan. But the revolt in Iraq-and the U.S. intelligence failure to anticipate it-left the U.S. no friendly government to support, no rallying point for action. Iraq and neighboring Syria are now coiled...
...hotels, more roads, toll gates and public conveniences of all kinds, it takes more and more workers to tend them. At the turn of the century manufacturing employed nearly 50% of all nonfarm workers. Today, the proportion is only 30%, and employment in the service industries is far more stable than in manufacturing. Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, onetime adviser to President Eisenhower and now chairman of Manufacturers Trust Co.'s finance committee: "The shift from manufacturing to services is comparable to the shift in the American economy in the 19th century from agriculture to manufacturing...