Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inevitable that the shortening of library hours will bring pressure to bear upon the delivery desk facilities, already, overburdened. On the ability of the library staff to handle the changes in circulation that doubtless will occur will depend the amount of inconvenience which the early closing hour will cause. At any rate, the inconvenience to the University members seems justified in terms of the economy it will make possible...
...Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps the sex of the willow tree. Were Fairies an Actual Race of Men? asked Dr. John Arnott MacCulloch, the learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many a fairy tale deals with gnomes, dwarfs and such...
...achievements modified by the contours of his country, the bias of a mountain race, the tendency of a trade route. Not pretending to be anything but a "poor ama-teur," Author Van Loon makes a blanket apology for statistical inaccuracies, explains that the authorities he has had to depend upon contradict themselves. Doubtless few professional geographers will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some. The graphic sketches and three-dimensional maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama...
Perhaps because he has spent so much time in Russia, Maurice Baring has the gift of writing naively, does not depend in any serious way on traditional phrases or sentiments he picked up on English playing fields. These 14 "talks . . . for the most part . . . delivered to imaginary audiences" are dedicated to "Uncle George, Johnny Walker and Andre Maurois ... all three of them partly responsible...
...Mayor's runaway financial agent] absence is ten million times more valuable to the charge makers than Sherwood's presence could possibly be. But don't let anybody mistake my position. That the tenure of office of the Mayor of the greatest city in the world should depend upon his detective ability is to me more or less unthinkable, particularly when the committee with $750,000 behind it and the arm of the State of New York and with the power that the law would give to him was unable to do what they say we all should have done...