Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lower income bracket students cannot stay out of the red if they depend on standard sources of revenue, a Student Council report on undergraduate finances revealed yesterday...
...about the Golden Age of improvements? On the face of it, it would seem that extensive improvements, on the order of six-page issues and so forth, would have to depend on a complete financial reorganization. If the News loses money running four pages, how much more would it lose if there were six pages every week? At the same time, livelier contents do not depend on finances. It doesn't cost a thing to run an interesting story instead of a dull...
Commenting on the forthcoming campaign, Weeks said last night, "I cannot emphasize too strongly the need for the most active participation and interest of everyone in the nominating and electing of candidates in next year's Student Council. In the last analysis, its effectiveness will depend upon those...
Much of the world's best land has been so badly treated that its productivity is falling steadily. Osborn retells the familiar tale of "soil-mining," deforestation and erosion all over the world. As people grow more numerous, the soil they depend on grows poorer & poorer. The low point has almost been reached in the Near East, where man-made deserts occupy large areas that were once fertile and populous. Like most conservationists, Osborn is something of an alarmist. He tends to underestimate the ability of modern agricultural science to revive maltreated soil, make deserts productive by irrigation...
Most movies depend on some realistic approach to achieve their end: slavishly typical settings, naturalism unadulterated, or at least superficially normal situations. When a film can suspend all realism, lose itself in time and place and idea, and still hold the convictions of its audience, it has chalked up the double accomplishment of a successful movie and an artistic ground-breaker...