Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desirable than the Draft could be carried on endlessly. The type of U.M.T. which Mr. Conant envisions, however, does not seem the best answer. Evening drill for ten years would put serious restrictions on the trainee's mobility; his work, his vacations, whether or not he travels would all depend on his local unit. The value of weekly training from a military stand-point might well be compared to Boy Scouting; it would be enormously expensive and highly complicated to set up; and, as a ten-year indoctrination program, it is wide open to the attacks of those who fear...
...over, the candidate rose amidst a clapping of hands. He didn't intend to talk politics, he said. "I assume most of you folks are going to vote for me." He remarked how well people in Owosso got along. "We're all useful," he added. "We depend on each other...
Lined Bar. This is THE meter: the standard length in terms of which all the world's measurements are defined. Even men who speak in pounds or poods, kilometers or versts, acres or mu depend ultimately upon the meter bar in Paris. The subtler units of measurement, such as dynes, electron-volts and curies, are based...
...contribution to modern U.S. politics is the somewhat novel discovery that good government does not necessarily depend on good party politics. As a candidate for governor of California in 1946 he won an unprecedented renomination on both Democratic and Republican tickets, promptly appointed men of both parties to state office. To some party regulars, such action was close to party treason. To Warren, it meant a rise in his popularity...
...missions for President Roosevelt, like Harry Hopkins and Robert D. Murphy; he broods about the decay of contemporary civilization, like Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens; he foresees what is going to happen with uncanny clairvoyance and advises people, especially President Roosevelt, with such telling effect that they come to depend on him for most of their information; he is always on the scene when great events are in the making-in Paris in 1919 for the Peace Conference, in Germany to hear Hitler tell him that Russia will be attacked...