Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, however well-administered, would tend to create friction. By lumping all Protestant sects into a single category, he neglects all sense of numerical proportion. One single Protestant group, the Episcopalian, is probably as large as each of the other two major divisions. Yet this church would have no claim on funds except through a Protestant interdenominational group--if and when such a group is formed...
...just wondering, with [the] possibility of a continuous universal military training program, how much more our nation will tend to push its basic concepts of democracy to the limits and approach closer to a, military other-direction type of culture...
...Jellinek (formerly head of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies), only one U.S. alcoholic out of six is a woman, but the ratio is creeping up. One probable reason, he suggested, is women's increased earning power: "When women compete with men in the professional field, they tend to adopt some of the outward signs of male culture...
...news for Bessie was publicly delivered by Attorney General Herbert Brownell.* After careful consideration, said Brownell, "we concluded that the merger . . . would be in violation of the antitrust laws," specifically a 1950 amendment to the Clayton Act prohibiting mergers that might tend to reduce competition. At the news, stocks of both companies, which had been hopping up on merger prospects, slipped. Bethlehem dropped 1¼ to 77¼; Youngstown closed...
...student body. Not many Eastern schools have agricultural, engineering, veterinary, and liberal arts concentrators rubbing shoulders even figuratively on the same campus. Of course the contact is not that close or constant in the normal scholastic course of things at Cornell, since the student bodies in the individual schools tend to be clearly defined and fairly cohesive groups, especially in their later undergraduate years. But in extra-curricular activities, particularly in athletics, there is considerable mixing among students from the many branches of the University...