Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson held its customary token workout in the Stadium yesterday and when it was over Coach Art Valpey rated today's game clearly a toss-up. "It will depend on how far each team has come in its recovery," he said. The betting gentry has given the locals a six and one-half point edge, largely because of their superior physical condition...
...about such a remark. Its four incumbents on the council, Pill, Swan Crane, and Deguglielmo are all likely to be reelected. Lawrence F. Feloney, a newcomer is running a strong race. CCA's organization and growing prestige are likely to give it at advantage over the "independents" who depend wholly on votes they can rally in this own districts through personal popularity...
...reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember his responsibility to the movie addicts who depend on him for "pleasure and escape from the cares of everyday living." And that, it has long since developed, is rather more than Author Robbins has managed to provide for readers of his book...
Finally, Professor Williams believes that much of the success or failure of the British action will depend on the United States. The fundamental cause of Britain's and Europe's dollar deficits "lies in our short-run economic instability and our long run tendency to outstrip others in production." The remedy here, Professor Williams feels, may be President Truman's "Point Four" plan to build up undeveloped regions through export of American technology and skill. "And we must preserve stability at home if we really want to achieve a world balance by some other means than the expenditure...
...Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...