Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chances. Can the Russian people ultimately break through the straitjacket which these men so carefully, so busily stitch for them? Last week brought signs that the Kremlin was still able to tend to the people's minimum needs. So long as it does, the 193,000,000 Russians are most unlikely to revolt. As to the long future, the American who knows Soviet Russia best has this...
...nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second-stringers are Molter-trained). Like most owners, the five tend to overestimate their horses. If a horse wins, the owner wants to enter him in a higher class. Willie prefers to enter horses in races they...
Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, took opposite ground, declaring "such a move would be a great mistake, for it would tend to promote a nationalism in literature which is evil enough in politics." Admitting that the proposals were the logical swing of the pendulum and that American literature has unfortunately been too long neglected, he emphasized that any art which shows an understanding of humanity cuts completely across national boundaries...
...cases of a single A.B. degree being urged, the choice of a preparatory "discipline" would therefore tend strongly toward mathematics: while two degrees, requiring Latin for the A.B. and Math for the S.B., would continue to apply pressure for the classics on pre-college school curriculums--an effect desired by many classic...
...abnormally high wages (78? a day), it was still difficult to keep the 1,300 Indian laborers steadily on the job. Some part of each year, in spite of the deadly verruga flies and the bone-dry soil of the western Andean slopes, they had to go back to tend their meager mountain farms...