Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of a group of potentially good tutors, Psychology's tutorial is as ineffective as it is necessary. Particularly because the courses tend to conflict with and repeat each other, good tutorial is a sorely needed connecting force. Only Junior and Senior honors candidates receive individual attention while Sophomores are distributed in groups of three to five, and non-honors men are relegated into even larger groups...
...cast it all in good sonata form. He might be said to have transcended mere structure to have given structure its highest significance. As a matter of fact, when faced with the originality of the ideas in the Ninth and the splendor of their execution, discussions of "form" tend to become meaningless. Only in the case of such composers as Bruckner or Mahler who try to imitate the Ninth and fail through lack of sustained inspiration, do you begin to worry about form, and notice how the composer has to prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which...
...patients escaped and fled to the hills. They knew that the Japs shoot lepers without mercy. Tall, typically Irish Father Francis O'Donnell, their pastor, followed them, assured them that the Lord protects the afflicted, got them to go back to the Leprosarium, where three nuns tend them...
...This type of reporting is an attempt by news-hungry journalists to present to the reading public facts which tend to arouse false hope in those who think that Mussolini's weakness means a revolution in Italy. This is mere wishful thinking," the professor stated...
Professor Auer laid great emphasis on the fundamental causes of the war. "We tend to oversimplify these causes," he said, "by propagandist exaggerations. We condemn, for example, the invariable wrong of the Axis peoples, and place on the other side the exact opposite on the part of our allies...