Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, I tend to doubt the causal connection between sub-standard housing and exodusing industries. Reports will show that despite the distressing living conditions in certain parts of Cambridge, more industries have come into this city than have left it in the past few years. All of which does not mean that the need for Urban Renewal is not urgent. Harrison Lunger...
Today, Arlington is maintained by a crew of 90 ground keepers, who carefully tend the grounds, repair crumbling headstones and monuments, and dig graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries...
...fact is, Howe said, that boys without scholarships tend to do about the same, regardiess of where they went to school before. The same is true of boys with scholarships, he said...
...Corporation's defiance of Senator McCarthy bolstered academic freedom on a nation-wide basis. If Harvard announced, for example, that it would not increase its enrollment at all until it had raised faculty salaries by twenty percent and built at least one new House, other institutions would likewise tend to raise their salaries (if only for competitive reasons) and in general to improve their standards. The Administration should take some such stand, assuring both Harvard people and the country as a whole that the College, though hoping and preparing to expand, will take that step only when it can handle...
Losing Battle. Most Negro magazines are also waging a losing battle since they tend to appeal to the reader as a Negro first, and only secondarily as a member of the larger community in which he is rapidly winning a place. For example, Our World, one of the glossiest Negro magazines, has frequently featured articles on Negro life in Africa and other parts of the world. Last week, after dropping nearly 100,000 circulation since its 1952 peak of 251,599, Our World Publishing Co. went bankrupt...