Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavies, recognized favorites for the Grand, found it more difficult to find sparring partners, and several times raced the 'fifties. Too many brushes, however, tend to make a crew nervous and weakens its form, and shortly before the first day of racing Coolidge took his eight up the river for some quiet practice...
...stressed that construction of the facility was first stimulated by the vitality of Harvard dramatics and by the multiplicity of groups interested in theatrical productions. "Through the pooling of technical, ticket, and publicity personnel, which will be necessary in the new theatre, these groups will tend to lose much of their separate identity," Henning continued...
...individual who falls asleep in class attributes this either to his own tiredness or to the dullness of lecture, and yet were sleep to be hypnotically induced, the subject would tend to blame this on the "occult" powers of the hypnotist. In reality, what happens in hypnosis depends more on the person under hypnosis than it does on the hypnotist...
Soviet students, Azrael finds, are generally content. "Tourists who meet Russian youths on the street tend to get an exaggerated impression of discontent among the university students." He was struck by the large extent of "satisfaction, defined in a great variety of ways, among the Soviet student body...
...test-case procedure. As Howe himself has admitted, the government might not sue to recover the misallocated funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half the loan if they enter teaching. Thus, if the University administered these loans without...