Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aristocratic Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. He was once F. D. R.'s Under Secretary of the Treasury, but his words came like a breath of fresh air from the contented '205: "You may say it is oldfashioned, but my belief is that the Federal Government should tend to national security with the utmost economy. I feel that expenditures by the Federal Government for personal security are apt to be unproductive in relation to the money spent...
...emotional stresses, once aroused in this fashion, tend to create a social compulsion not unlike state edict in its effect, while a brief look-see at the "God Bless America" excesses should convince anyone of the impossibility of maintaining this type of emotional patriotism within non-ridiculous bounds. (At one show currently on Broadway a magician pulls 20 Starred-and-Striped chorus girls out of a hat; they're honeys, but would Professor Elliott approve...
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...
Concerning the hungry solicitors who lurk outside Mem Hall, Hooper's report says, "The solicitors tend to wax enthusiastic . . They should be firmly dealt with . . . It will generally be found necessary to threaten them with expulsion from time to time in order to restrain their clamor...
Contrary to popular belief, old students tend to make more mistakes than new ones "because they consider that they are familiar with the procedure...