Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fronts as the National Committee to Win the Peace.* Probably it would also catch the pink-tea groups, like the Congress of American Women and the Council for Pan-American Democracy. In the last analysis, if the U.S. was to have real security and no witch hunts, everything would depend upon the men running the machinery, and how they interpreted their instructions...
...those who never thought much of school work. France, a country with a crying need for tourist trade, is less concerned with the intellectual means of its prospective culture crop than it is with the dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years will depend in large measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their scholastic objectives in favor of more bohemian ones, they can quickly transform a good thing into a tragic free-for-all, to the disadvantage of both French universities and well-intentioned students. Only...
...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...
...some of these restrictions necessary. Interhouse privileges at lunch, for instance, while theoretically desirable, would result in mass descents on Adams House on cold, rainy days, and even in the warmth of spring lazy science majors would seek out the closest dining hall. Major migrations of this sort, which depend on the vagaries of the weather and of student programs, would make an administrative tangle out of all proportion to their actual value to students. But interhouse between the Union and the House is another matter. With veterans making up a large proportion of Yardlings, friendship ties cross Massachusetts Avenue...
Chinese drama (hsi chü), like 100-year-old eggs, has few enthusiasts in the U.S. Westerners have difficulty staying awake through its mute, complex formality and its endless haggling with a ritual whose whole meaning may depend on the number of folds in an actor's sleeve. But last week a Chinese company of 14 did pretty well on Broadway...