Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around was that Wendell Willkie was just a super-hawker who had sold the Republican Convention a bill of goods. Last week, spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington Republican politicians fumed with...
Heredity & Environment. There is no evidence that any racial group or social class has more native intelligence than any other. There are more variations in heredity among individuals of a group than among any social or racial groups. Children tend to be like their parents in hereditary capacity; if their endowments are weak, not even a college education can make them bright. "In the limited environments of isolated and marginal people," said Mr. Osborn, "good hereditary capacities do not have a chance to develop as they would in a better environment. An environment equalized at a higher level would show...
...phrase "Brain Trust" is happily dead, of overexertion. U. S. citizens tend more & more to think of their President as an independent, secretive, isolated individual existing in a near vacuum of his own making. Independent he is to a degree: he once said truly that only the President could speak for the President. Secretive he can be (about Third Term, for instance). But he is not isolated. Around him, on the pedestal where Presidents must live, are men on whom he relies. In seven years the make up of that group has changed several times. In 1933 it centred...
Walter Millis: "I believe what MacLeish said to be exactly true but easily misunderstood. Battleships are useless unless armored with conviction; and the books, stressing both the filth of war and the partial falsity of the slogans, did tend to undermine conviction when their intent was to purify and strengthen it. But they ought to have been written. Their humane and rational teaching must be a vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think...
Beak. The Irish are a people whose memory of wrongs is so ancient that their ideas about right tend to be either factional or mythical. From childhood up Yeats believed in Ireland's myths more than in its factions, believed also that the Irish, to become a self-respecting nation, would have to develop a literature so eloquent of truths about the Irish race that Irishmen would pore over its books with the intensity they customarily reserved for putting God's curse on the English and each other...