Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathetic lay reader for the deaf of New England these many years, has been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
...School of Applied Science (Cleveland), President of the American Physical Society, participated in the original ether-drift experiments of Professors Michelson and Morley 20 years ago, upon which Dr. Einstein built his theory of relativity. Dr. Miller's new figures are the most complete and accurate yet made and tend to alter, if not to disprove, Dr. Einstein's propositions. Also, establishment of the existence of ether is fundamentally important to scientific knowledge of the structure of matter. Dr. Miller's work was recognized as the "most notable contribution to the advancement of science in 1925," and he was awarded...
...students tend to give back on blue-books merely what they are told, "the way to counteract such a tendency is to set questions that require thought more than memory." If cramming is indulged in beyond legitimate limits,--"The questions should not be susceptible of answer by merely committing to memory facts and formulate." How great a transformation would be wrought in Harvard examination papers by the serious application of this maxim...
...gigantic co-operative marketing association, which will then sell its surplus abroad at a loss, this loss instead of being taken by the Government as price fixer to be prorated among the producers. In this way, they contend, the loss on the surplus prorated among the producers, would tend to act as a deterrent to overproduction...
...this action would redound to the incalculable benefit of future Harvard students. At present, few men who begin their study of a foreign language in college ever perfect themselves in it sufficiently to make it a useful instrument in later college work. The Crimson's proposal would tend to the fulfillment of the spirit as well as the letter of the language requirement...