Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true culture to be suffering from commercial oppression. But the real investigation of policy should originate from within. The legislature has the legal force, whereas the moral suasive power rests with the vast body of Harvard men. Harvard undoubtedly needs business men to administer its finances: If those men tend to stifle liberal education the administration of policy should be placed in other hands - the hands of men who have at heart the interests of the republic of letters and science...
More. Experiments conducted on plant lice and similar animals tend to show that sex is neither entirely hereditary nor environmental, but is determined by the effect of bodily activity.-Dr. A. Franklin Shull, University of Michigan...
That Dr. Bellini was a man of learning and attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson...
...addition to his scholastic reputation, Dr. Hall is famous as the man whose work with students beginning to use original manuscripts for the first time has started many American scholars on the proper method of procedure. The department of History especially recommends this lecture to men who in tend to do advanced work in history at some time or other in their scholastic career...
Foreign loans may lead to temporary gold exports, but interest and sinking fund payments later tend to draw even more gold back to our shores. Not until the trade balances are on a very different basis than at present, is it likely that considerable American gold exports will continue...