Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic point was perfectly true: that the only promising source of further tax revenue is a higher tax rate on lower-income groups. As for increased tax rates on business, said he: "We would only be fooling ourselves. Taxes on business are passed on to the people, but tend to discourage business activity...
...American churches share the immediate interests and speak the vernacular of their world, they tend to lose the dispassionateness which pure religion ought to share with pure science," Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School said in his annual report issued yesterday...
...scholar has said that modern Protestantism has developed a 'theology of accommodation,' that is, it lives by a nicely calculated adjustment to the dominant interests of the common mind. Plainly, in so far as our American churches share the immediate interests and speak the vernacular of their world, they tend to lose the dispassionateness which pure religion ought to share with pure science...
Although he is profane and frequently ribald away from his mike, Mr. Anthony when wired for sound is as full of virtue as a revivalist. Ladies periodically knocked around by their husbands, men whose wives tend to wander indiscriminately, are uniformly advised by Mr. Anthony that life is beautiful and love will conquer all. The ill winds that blow through his microphone bring Mr. Anthony an estimated $3,000 a week...
Governor Saltonstall stated that only a few class members have voted in past years, and that their choices have been widely scattered. The new plan, by limiting the candidates to eight, will tend to make the choices more popular...