Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council made known its opinion on H442 through Frederic D. Houghteling '50, who said "the trouble with all purges and all censorship . . . is that they tend to fall into the hands of those who are willing to agree with anything they do not agree with...
...average citizen, culture is a handy catchall into which to dump the arts, education, plumbing, science and any other pursuits that seem to be elements of modern civilization. To some philosophers it plainly represents "an interest in, and some ability to manipulate, abstract ideas." Peers of the realm tend instinctively to see culture as "urbanity and civility"; the grubbing archeologist sees it in the shape of the potsherds and tibias that he digs up in Papua and the Tigris valley...
...mixture may look higgledy-piggledy at first glance: in England, for example, Eliot believes that culture includes "Derby Day . . . dog races . . . the dart board . . . boiled cabbage cut into sections . . . the music of Elgar." It also includes the English bishop's characteristic gaiters-in fact, religion and culture tend to become so intertwined that bishops appear to be "a part of English culture, and horses and dogs ... a part of English religion...
Butler held as the crux of his argument that government payment of doctors on the basis of how many patients they serve will tend to make them keep all of them as well as possible, while under the present system of "fee for service" the doctors thrive on sickness...
...point out a curious relationship between the two stories? Korzybski says that what's wrong with people with "Aristotelian orientations" is that they tend to build their attitudes and their lives on verbal definitions . . . His "non-Aristotelian" theory is directed toward getting people past their definitions and words, i.e., blasting a few holes in the verbal wall that stands between them and reality...