Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another question: "Have you ever sent messages to other planets?'' Prompt answer: "I've sent lots of messages that never got anywhere. If dispatches ever reach other planets the achievement will depend on overcoming absorption in the earth's atmosphere, and last but not least on whether the planets are inhabited. They might be in the Stone Age and not be ready to receive our communications. We know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter...
...winner has been seeded number one; seeded second is John H. Curtiss 5G, former Big Ten finalist while attending Northwestern. Frank W. Jones '35 and Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, two promising Juniors have been given numbers three and four respectively. Upon the results of the matches will depend to a great extent the selection by Coach Harry Cowles of a nucleus squad for indoor practice during the winter months and as a figurative basis of the varsity team...
...scrimmages so far: first, Coach Eddie Casey has at his disposal a much larger group of prospective first-string men this year than in 1932; secondly, the entire squad is noticeably rough in assignment work, and, thirdly, this year more than any other the success of the season will depend on the set of plays developed by Casey and his assistants...
Such is the task that confronts the Freshman, to be accomplished in the preposterously short period of three days. And on the success of the enterprise will often depend the fate of those who find themselves burdened in the middle of the year with an impossible schedule. If the "Freshman Days" must offer a found of pleasant surprise parties, they should afford what is far more important--an opportunity for a spell of concentrated course research...
Besides being lengthy and laborious, adding a new saint to the Roman Catholic calendar is an expensive business. Many hearings are held, many investigations made into the life of the person proposed for canonization. Alleged miracles, upon which beatification and subsequent canonization depend, must be diligently checked by expert scientists and doctors. Then, if the cause is successful elaborate ceremonies are held in St. Peter's in Rome. All this runs to money. The Roman Catholic faithful are giving sums which may eventually total as much as 1,000,000 lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother...