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Word: tends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, in his home on Longfellow Road. Dr. Reischauer lives with his wife and two children in an atmosphere that is decidedly Oriental. Though the family doesn't eat with chopsticks, the living rooms are filled with curios and souvenirs of the East. All tend to support the view that some day, the slim, bespectacled instructor with the athletic build and the infections laugh will return to his beloved East. If he does, his mission will be one of sympathetic friendship and not of conquest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 7/10/1942 | See Source »

...bona fide undergraduate or graduate student on presentation of his bursar's card. Men who are studying at Harvard in order to complete requirements for a Harvard degree have, we believe, a just claim for auditing at will. This adjustment in an otherwise smoothly-running program would tend to put the University on a more normal full-time basis. The present system is definitely a step backward and a limitation of intellectual freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound of Flesh II | 6/27/1942 | See Source »

Farmers had forgotten their chronic worry: low prices and poor markets. Their orders were to produce; and they liked that, because AAAllotments had thwarted their marrow-deep instinct to plant, tend and harvest. Barring too many bugs, too much rain, too little rain, things should have looked good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: New Worries | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...general charge made against British coal operators is that they will not do anything now to jeopardize their possible post-war profits. Now they cannot keep excess profits. So they tend to work the worst seams, on which they are able to cover costs, rather than open up rich, new seams which look good for a competitive future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Burning Issue | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...should have at his fingertips the information revelant to the Freshman, to the various study programs and what they lead to. With this specific material on hand and the advice of a tutor or proctor, the Freshman would be much more secure in his decision and would not tend to sign up blindly for one of the service enlistment programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORT SEEKS CHANGES IN INFORMATION BUREAU | 6/5/1942 | See Source »

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