Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establishment of a Universal World Organization in which, when it is ultimately established, the proposed agreement between them would be merged. ... If a four-power agreement . . . [were] to be all that this country envisaged . . . such an accord would necessarily tend to stimulate the assumption by the four powers of the rights and prerogatives of world dictators. It would be suspect in the minds of all of the lesser powers as an instrument in derogation of their own sovereignty...
...damned if I ever felt like that." He resented the suggestion that modern life had been made as dull as ditchwater: "And, by the way, is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun." But to apostles of progress he remarked: "We sometimes tend to overlook the quiet and even bashful presence of the machine...
Unlike many a war-baby boss, Austin does not worry over absenteeism. His workers wander off at any time to do chores, tend their bees, chickens and strawberry plants. Nor does he worry over profits. Said he: "We aren't exactly doing this to make money. What would we do with it? We're just having some...
...liberalist as one who writes for the "New Republic" or "The Nation," joins the Liberal Union here, and believes "by his very nature, man is good and all one has to do is give him knowledge to keep him in this state." He claimed that Liberals in their theories tend to overestimate the role of human behavior...
...remarked among other sweet nothings that he had to be in every night at 7.45 o'clock, and that this would make things awfully difficult. Our experience over the last several weeks would tend to bear this out, and we might add that he doesn't know the half...