Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definitely object to the imposition of such a fee," Bender stated. "It would cut down our applications just where we don't want it to. It would tend to discourage the boy in the lower income bracket from applying. But we have to balance this consideration against the need of saving say $40,000 a year which could be plowed into other worthwhile needs...
...optimists are wrong if they think that censure will mean the end of McCarthy as a political power. In the Senate, the debate has swung around McCarthy the man, and McCarthy the ill-behaved Senator. Thus, many liberals, revolted by the abusive McCarthy tactics, tend to dismiss all his adherents as either malicious or stupid people. Such an attitude, however, underestimates the movement and suggests no solution to McCarthyism as a political problem. The censure split in the Senate parallels a more serious split in the nation, a division particularly deep in matters of foreign policy. The McCarthyitcs' overriding fear...
Zola denied there was any advantage in studying in bed and added that the increased time for study was counteracted by the increased difficulty of concentrating. "Besides," he added, "most courses, taken on the horizontal, tend to make me fall asleep...
...London's sprawling la^ courts. As a clock mechanic in the Ministry of Works, it was his duty to wind, inspect and keep on time the 800 clocks scattered throughout the great building. One day last week. Manners climbed the stone stairs of the tall main tower to tend the intricate mechanism of gears, chains and weights in the great central clock that juts out from the law courts at Temple Bar, above London's busy Strand...
...Putney School grew, Director Hinton kept the pioneer spirit fiercely alive. Her blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around...