Word: depend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seiberling Rubber-eighth biggest U.S. rubber company-has not been doing well. Lacking the assured market enjoyed by big companies that sell directly to automakers, it has had to depend instead on chancy replacement sales. In 1954 Seiberling sales dropped 11% below 1953 to $35.7 million, its net earnings 79% to $215,789, and its common-stock earnings from $2.10 in 1953 to 2? per share. The company has started diversifying into plastics, and 1955 looks like a better year, with sales of $34 million and earnings of $834,000 in the first nine months. Said Lamb last week: "Seiberling...
Harvard in History. Harvard's influence and contribution will depend to some extent upon its contribution to the total of college graduates. In the 17th Century, beginning in 1642, Harvard's contribution was 100 per cent; Yale did not compete until 1702 and Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Princeton until the middle of the 18th Century; and the first of the great state universities until the middle of the 19th Century. But by 1870 the percentage of Harvard undergraduates to all students in American colleges had been reduced to 11.5 per cent; by 1910 to 6.4 per cent...
Personal Tendency. By the nature of its mission, the fund was bound to be attacked, and its success or failure was bound to depend on the ability of its spokesmen to meet the attacks. Hutchins has absorbed nearly all of the public-relations function, and Hutchins is so brilliant a controversialist that he sometimes seems to be looking for fights in which to display his debater's skill...
...into exile or to prison are called éloignés (distant ones). Last week in French Morocco and Tunisia two such distant ones were close at hand. Both were nationalists whom the French had once deported; both were also moderates on whom both Frenchman and Arab must now depend if calm is to be restored in North Africa...
...slapstick is a theatrical narcotic, and both Wilder and director Tyrone Guthric almost inhale too much of the stuff. Having written the play expressly for Ruth Gordon in the role of Mrs. Levi, the author has given her too many lines that depend on dialect alone. Guthrie has compounded the peccadillo by letting Miss Gordon maintain her rasping voice too loud for too much of the time. The result, especially when Loring Smith is sharing the scene as the booming and gesticulating Vandergelder, is a shouting match that numbs the audience and detracts from those scenes wherein pandemonium reigns legitimately...