Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory claims that a man can be-alternately or concomitantly-homo-and hetero-sexual. The statement is as rational as one declaring that a man can at the same time have cancer and perfect health. Some homosexuals are occasionally capable of lustless mechanical sex with a woman . . . They tend to marry as a means of proving . . . that they are completely normal...
Opdycke attacked the idea of setting up a special studio center for students of fine and applied arts as a "burr" on the University's museum facilities. Such a center would tend toward a professional art school, with little use to Fine Arts students seeking an understanding of the elements of painting, he said...
This concept of the "roving professor" originated more than 20 years ago with President Conant. He first mentioned his views in the President's Report for 1933-34--his second annual presidential report. Writing about "methods of counteracting the centrifugal forces which tend to separate our faculties into an ever-in-creasing number of sub-divisions," he claimed that the University should "emphasize those programs of teaching and research which cut across the conventional boundaries...
...Northern Democratic attempt to create a continuing idea and strategy group for the defeated party is a plan which has been tried unsuccessfully be- fore. The appointment of Stevenson might tend to give more weight to the recommendations of the committee to Congressional leader. Southern conservative leadership, however, which holds nine of sixteen Senate committee chairmanships cannot be expected to give in quickly to any demands to reverse its tactics of agreeing and working with President Eisenhower...
Researchers who contend that heavy cigarette smoking is the major cause of lung cancer tend to minimize the possible importance of air pollution as another cause. On the other hand, the air-pollution enthusiasts minimize the importance of smoking. Last week Dr. Wilhelm C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute told public-health engineers meeting in Atlantic City that the pattern of the increase in lung cancer coincides not with the pattern of increased smoking, but more closely with the use of cancer-causing substances in industry and their appearance in engine-exhaust fumes. Conceding that much of his evidence...