Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother should not kiss and cuddle her baby, should turn a deaf ear when he cries, should feed and tend him with cold regularity. So ran the advice most pediatricians gave parents a few years ago. But many of these "scientific," timetable children have grown up neurotic, unhappy. So the doctors have returned to Nature: they now believe in old-fashioned mother love and intelligent laissez faire...
...Growth in itself is not something inherently evil. It is the peculiar genius of the Constitution of the U.S. that it could and did operate as an open-end instrument, bringing more territory and more peoples into federal union. That conception should not now be renounced. . . . All national groups [tend] to attribute self-righteousness to [their present] mood. This tendency, which violates Christ's precepts, creates much ill-will and is itself a major contributing cause...
...Some of its drawbacks: it removes all monetary incentives to increase production and efficiency; takes away one check on inflation, since corporations tend to be free with money that they cannot save for their stockholders; may leave corporations in a weakened financial position to meet the slump and unemployment that will come with peace...
...settings are perhaps the play's greatest virtue, but they lack subtlety, and tend to stand out by themselves, as original and dramatic, rather than taking their proper place as a backdrop for the action of the play...
While students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both, Duhig said. For room, the students tend furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table...