Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good qualities tend to be associated with one another in the natural make-up of men and women...
...Sure you can," said a stout gentleman. "Be calm. Just go ahead and 'tend to Mr. Flinn...
...Secondly, the Church should cooperate with the findings of modern science, and urge the use of scientific discoveries which tend to the upward development of the race. If, for instance, in the light of modern knowledge, the upward development of humanity seems to point to a greater emphasis upon family life, then the Church should urge the latter to be maintained at all hazards. But if upward development seems to lie in any other direction, then to maintain the solidity of the family against it, is not being an intelligent guide. I am not saying which way science seems...
...years ago, he found building at a standstill, due to the restrictions imposed by previous regimes upon landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value of the lira (TIME, Sept. 13), Signor...
...interesting to you to know that such notes as you have favored me with, which are not at all uncommon in TIME, tend to make the magazine a bit tiresome and have lost it more than one of its earlier subscribers...