Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given a wrong impression to the public, not as to the necessity of a navy, but as to the accomplishment of enterprises beyond its sphere. Neither now nor in the future will international conflicts be determined by naval engagements. In some instances naval victories may produce conditions that will tend to hasten the conclusion of a war, but ... to affect, to cripple or destroy a nation in wartime can only be done by injuring to that degree its power of government, its resources and its ability to defend itself against the enforcement of hostile demands." In short, to defeat...
...which the vitamin is extracted, have been scarce since war broke out in 1939. So Arizona's three to four thousand acres of carrots (whose harvesting began last fortnight) may be the answer to every aviation command's problem of preventing night blindness in its flyers, who tend to subsist largely on peanuts and candy...
...American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully, and in a few cases fulsomely, represented; contemporary poets receive mostly only token representation. People who tend to bloat when reading classic pieces can get relief, in The Viking Book, from its citation of one of the best literary carminatives ever written (taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson...
Handouts. There is now one Government press agent for every two bona fide correspondents and they tend more & more to substitute propaganda for fresh information. Their deluge of mimeographed "handouts," according to the Bureau of the Budget, now costs the Government about $1,000,000 a year...
Army's backfield is light, the first one all season which will weigh about the same as Harvard's. Stahl, however, characterizes it as the best balanced quartet to face the Crimson this year. And a look at its personnel would tend to bear out his statement, for in the first team backfield, Army's new coach. Earl Blaik, can count on three triple threats...