Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large universities, student-faculty relationships in many of Cornell's undergraduate divisions tend to be on the remote side. Cornell has its full quota of outstanding faculty members, with reputations extending far beyond the college community, like government professor Robert E. Cushman, a leading authority in the field of civil rights, famed physicist Hans Bethe, and philosopher Max Black. Although many of these men may give the large introductory courses and try to make themselves accessible to students, the average student is likely to hold them too much in awe, especially in his early years, to approach them readily...
...have passed through English Departments. A kind of graduate-school poetry has come into being: well written, beautifully organized, and nicely centred at some 'norm' of excellence, but at the same time, dead, dry and without a spark either of feeling or originality . . . Young poets in America tend to sit at the feet of their elders, imbibing technical knowledge and dedication by argument and the laying on of hands. Young poets in England associate with each other, often forming schools whose design is the overthrow of elder schools . . . The American almost cynically sets out to do as best...
Over the generations, Dr. Stern predicts, more light-skinned Negroes will be born, and they will tend, even at the present rate of interracial mating, to diffuse into the white population. The loss by "passing" of light-skinned individuals may leave the rest of the Negroes darker, on the average, than they are at present. On the other hand, an inflow of European genes may balance the loss and further dilute the Negro population...
Geophysicist K. M. Creer of Cambridge University believes that he has proved it by measuring the magnetism of ancient rocks. Both volcanic and sedimentary rocks, as they are formed, tend to become magnetized by the earth's magnetic field. Their magnetism, though very feeble, is parallel to the magnetic field that formed it, pointing like a compass needle toward the magnetic pole...
...other industries, textilemen were faced with rising production costs. But their problem was worse. Featherbedding was suffocating the highly organized mills of New England. For example, some union contracts specified that a millhand could tend no more than six looms, even though workers in unorganized factories were tending 18 or more. Thus many of the high-cost New England plants became marginal producers, or lost money heavily. Instead of shutting down marginal mills as demand fell off, most of the industry kept them going, often at a loss, in a vague hope that business would improve...