Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Sheldon Jackson, working for the U. S. Bureau of Education in Alaska, became worried about the Eskimos; they were starving. He imported from Siberia a herd of 1,280 reindeer, and some Lapp herdsmen to teach the Eskimos how to tend them.* The Eskimos, natural hunters and trappers, but with little talent for agriculture, were not successful. Carl Lomen noticed this. He wanted to try his hand with reindeer but found that by Government decree no white man could engage in the industry. He learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire...
...come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations. . . . New type vessels are under construction which tend to throw the treaty cruisers into disfavor and minimize their chances of employment ten years hence...
This purely mechanical feature may tend to thwart one of the fundamental purposes of the House Plan; it is apt to preclude any real possibility of a cross-section of University life...
...there was danger that it might fall in its purpose through lack of patronage, since the powerful Triangle club has removed to quarters of its own. The proposed university center is planned to combine the best features of both, in that, as the seat of activities, it will not tend to be left to the nonclubmen alone...