Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week faces the severe handicap of public boredom. Exposed to the war only through a year of headlines, we over here have become inured to its details. Night bombings are no longer so scusational as they were in August. The invasion of Greece seems like old stuff. We tend to forget that each hour of bombing causes more loss of property than the fall of the Tacoma bridge. The phrase "severe damage to personnel." so carelessly bandied around by newspaper strategists, actually means that more blood has been poured onto the soil of Europe...
...only the most romantic sentimentalists suspected that man and wife tend to die of the same noninfectious diseases...
Nixon stressed that the Lewis declaration was not so much pro-Willkie as anti-Roosevelt. The shaggy-haired head miner feels that the President does not really represent labor, and that continued support of Roosevelt by organized workers would tend to tie them to the Democratic party. Lewis believes, according to Nixon, that the long run interest of labor lies in keeping independent of both parties...
...Sothern, who as Ernie Craig, puts over the very delicate shadings that make his part a rich one. Barbara Parmley, as the girl from the band, has a pleasing spontaneity, but unfortunately, the more socialite characters of the play, perhaps trying over-hard to make their parts life-like, tend to be stuffy...
Even in Chicago, where war sentiment in the faculty is strong, no group has sprung up. Feeling in the mid-western colleges seems of a passive sort. "The war is three thousand miles away. Elaborate efforts at preparation will only tend to lead...