Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer, in a Varsity match with a Business School team, Freedman defeated Jenkins 9-7, 9-7, and on the basis of this he is rated the favorite today. Freedman's greater experience and capture of the 1941 New England Intercollegiate championship also tend to lengthen the odds on Jenkins...
...crops bloomed into harvest the draft and juicy war jobs started taking farm people away. About 570,000 left farms in 1940. More than 1,000,000 left in 1941. By seeding time next spring, an estimated 1,300,000 more will have gone. Now farmers can no longer tend all their acres, milk all their cows. They must somehow reduce operations, sell herds or sit down and admit they are licked...
...correspondent, visiting a prison camp in India, reported that thousands of captured Italians live in luxury they could never know at home. They tend gardens, sunbathe, play football, grow fat on abundant rations. Miserably paid in their own army, they now receive British Army pay (small compared with U.S. pay). General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, pleasantly housed with several other generals, has been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing...
Early in his studies Soundman Burris-Meyer discovered a few essential don'ts. For example: 1) hymns slow production almost to the stopping point; 2) Deep in the Heart of Texas prompts workers to clap their hands and let production go hang; 3) vocal refrains tend to distract rather than to stimulate; 4) music during the last 20 minutes of the working day is likely to be taken as a signal to pack up and go home. Burris-Meyer did not even attempt to play Strip Polka, for fear of provoking a complete breakdown of production...
French industrialists were instructed to replace deported workers with unskilled recruits. After a period of training this raw labor would be ready to take its turn in the Reich. Continuous labor exchange would tend to standardize industrial technique in the two countries...