Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...digging in Rhodesia is Lidio Cipriani, Professor of Ethnology at the University of Florence. Important has been his discovery of flint instruments, for they tend to prove that Rhodesia was a land of the living in prehistoric as well as medieval times. Last week the Professor reported a particularly exciting discovery? two "Bushman paintings" on rock, one on top of the other. Beneath was a well-dressed Arab. Above was a Bushman ferociously warring with Bantus. It was the first example of superimposed art to be found in Rhodesia. It promised under analysis to help historians to learn what races...
...move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout its entire history...
...beauty contests. Acting in his capacity as Minister of the Interior (one of his 8-out-of-13 Cabinet positions) he notified all prefects of Italian provinces that "beauty contests, with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome...
Psychologically also, courses should receive less emphasis because they tend to substitute a near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course examinations are apt to be matters of fact. Thus the course system, in the handgrip mouth method of study it inculcates, hinders the student working for a general examination...
...contests; but its lineup has seven veterans including pitcher Hensil who played on the 1928 nine which trounced Harvard by a decisive 8 to 0 score. The left-handed Wildcat hurler let the last year's Crimson outfit down with six hits and fanned nine, facts which tend to show that today's contest may yet be a ball game worth seeing...