Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tend to equalize the population of each Congressional district...
Naturally, the scheme has its limitations. The room and food rates will probably be excessive for many commuters, and this will tend to limit the number of beneficiaries. Furthermore, although many of the Yardling commuters will be helped, relatively few non-resident upperclassmen will ever be affected...
...these days of wordy discussion over the relative merits of Concentration and Distribution, we tend to forge the Harvard of fifteen years ago, a university where students chose their courses not so much for the subject matter as for the teacher. It was the era of Kitty and Copey and John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the greatest of them all was Albert North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, who is celebrating his eightieth birthday today...
...average commuter, for instance, does not tend to enlarge his acquaintance with other members of his class. His range of friends is all too frequently limited to the men who sit on either side of him in classes and to those who live in his town and commute with him. Dudley Hall is not open in the evening, with the result that commuters always eat their dinner at home. And because many of the college's extra-curricular activities take place during the evening, the commuter does not participate in them. Many live so far away that several hours...
...Most people, whether students or not, tend to resist the idea that failure to reach goals or inability to make adequate personal adjustments may lead to illness, but the correlation appears to be high," Dr. Bock said...