Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct line of descent from the founder-is staid, bespectacled George Emlen Roosevelt, 59, a noted amateur chess player and yachtsman. He will be succeeded ultimately by one of his two sons or five nephews, in the tradition of the family motto: Qui Plantavit Curabit (he who planted will tend...
...great majority of human ailments tend towards spontaneous recovery." A doctor must know when to apply "skillful neglect"; i.e., just tell the patient he is going to get well without treatment, or give him a harmless pill...
...Nature has given to man." He was opposed strongly to "absolute freedom of the press" because it provided "revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." He opposed the passage, in 1940, of Quebec's law giving women suffrage in provincial elections. His reason: it would tend to destroy family unity and paternal authority...
...engages the correspondent or accepts the article that will give aid and comfort to that side. Forsaking the obligation to illuminate, he turns on the heat. The result is inevitable: the other side fights back. The blood pressure of the community rises. And what we tend to have in our journalism is not a town meeting in which unexpected opinions and fresh solutions and ingenious compromises have a hearing, but a pitched battle of propagandas. . . . A certain amount of this sort of partisan journalism may be a good thing ... I am not arguing for tepidity, but for variety...
...every twenty to thirty years, has not been visited upon the world since 1918, when it killed twenty-one million people of whom half a million were Americans. The pandemic virus has been due to strike again since 1937. Less powerful viruses, the more common influenza "A" or "B", tend to run in five or six year cycles. Both are set for a re-appearance, since neither has been detected in epidemic form since before...