Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire torpedoes in high seas. 3) It would be normal to fire at least two torpedoes, since high seas lessen accuracy. 4) The City of Benares (11,801 tons) was a catch worth two torpedoes. 5) A boiler or other internal explosion would blow up through the decks, tend to produce a slow sinking (The City of Benares sank within half an hour). 6) That week (Sept. 15-22) Germany claimed the sinking of 201,862 tons of shipping and the British acknowledged a loss of 131,857 tons-their highest week's shipping losses...
...minds of women and children can serve no useful purpose to the American way of life. To depict a man in the character of a German hurling insults at our American citizenry could only serve a god of hatred, m contrast to our God of Love. It would tend to stir up strife and resentment, resulting in possible attack upon some innocent American citizens of German descent...
...course, biographical pictures of loved figures always tend to be maudlin. But for the first forty minutes director Lloyd Bacon resisted to such trite tricks as courtroom orations and ectoplasmic figures in the stadium, he fumbled badly in showing Rockne the man. This latter part of the picture is endurable solely because it is thoroughly punctuated with some of the best football shots on celluloid, including three defeats of Army, which may be a happy omen...
...alumni groups, it is perfectly possible that "football scholarships" might be given in some cases, but actually it does not work out that way. The Harvard Clubs are so impressed by the used of picking material which can make the Dean's List in the Freshman year that they tend to say away from activities men and toward brilliant scholars...
Claiming that his native France "was not really beaten," 20-year old Parisian refugee Jean H. Dourif '44 said in an interview yesterday that "the German occupation will do the people a lot of good because it will tend to unite them once more. All they need now is a good leader...