Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, the exact same statement applies to the Crimson, only to a lesser degree, so that tomorrow's match promises to be a battle royal between players who may well tend to blow up if a few bad breaks come their...
...dangerous possibility that in an effort to enlarge their function as centers of athletic and social life, Harvard will become a body of seven small, disconnected units. Graduating unromantically in three groups annually and participating in House activities with a limited number of their own classmates, students will tend to become members of a House rather than part of a particular class embracing the whole college...
...should the American people prove such fertile ground for sentiments of this kind? The answer is to be found in the psychological process called "displacement of aggression". Briefly, this process involves frustrations, which tend to arouse hostility. Normally, this hostility is directed against the offending object or persons...
Solution of a war inflation by severe taxation of the low-income groups would be a grave error. To begin with, it would tend to place an unfair proportion of the burden on this group, and furthermore it would prevent the building up of that large reservoir of purchasing power which is so essential to a healthy industrial economy after the war. Compulsory saving is clearly the method that should be used, for it not only solves the present problem of inflation but the post-war problem of purchasing power as well. If the great mass of the people emerge...
...volume appears padded. The lyrics, excepting an occasional piece like "Come In" or "A Young Wretch," seem minor, and occasionally trite. Emphasizing the short line and two-syllable rhyme, poems like "A Considerable Speck" are characterized by occasional flashes of epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society; and the bewildered fear that...