Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There Geneticist Ralph Phillips will breed the animals toward genetic stability, so that their characteristics will persist when they are released to U.S. farmers, who now tend some 50,000,000 sheep...
Increases in passenger traffic, plus the fact that more & more cars ride full instead of half empty, tend to increase railroads' passenger revenues and passenger profits. But because the railroads complain about rising costs, ICC last week granted them a 10% fare increase effective Feb. 10, letting them take a nick out of the public's pocket at a time when the public cannot escape. So citizens will not only travel less, they will be less comfortable when they travel, and they will pay extra for their discomfort...
...Manager John McGraw's job. But the Rajah lasted only one season. Reason: while substituting for McGraw on a road trip, he answered one of Owner Charles Stoneham's why-don't-you suggestions by saying: "You look after your stockmarket Stoneham, and I'll tend to the team...
...counted on to resist the Japanese as fiercely as they once resisted the Spaniards and the Americans. Silence was to be expected from the Ilocanos, the ingenious "Yankees of the Philippines" in whose villages life followed its immemorial pattern regardless of conquest. Silence was expected from the Chinese who tend the stores in the villages, do much of the islands' trading, lend money to extravagant Filipinos, mind their own business and have bowed temporarily to invaders before...
...reached in family organization. More complex units could more thoroughly control the external environmental fluctuations." Guided by similar fundamental evolutionary forces, man and insects developed social systems, even though as organisms they were of widely divergent stocks. And societies, like family groups, further tend to supersede the individual as the unit of selection...