Word: depended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where is France to get gold? Economists say that the fall of the franc was caused by the depletion of the gold reserves in the Bank of France. If France has no gold, she must depend on trade to replenish her stock. To rebuild her industry and commerce, France must have time; but time is the one thing American policy cannot grant her if there is to be immediate tax reduction it home...
...week's happenings be comes monotonous to me. There is much in it about which I do not care a great deal. I ought to, but I don't. One might read its book section and still be woefully ignorant of current publishings. For books, I depend on the book section of The New York Times. When I have read a New York daily, The Outlook and my special publications in Science. TIME contains nothing of interest to me which I have not already seen. The first section of TIME, called "Mr. Coolidge's Week" (pardon...
With one grand slash of the pen, the professor reduces all mankind to a single dead level. "There is no such thing," says he, "as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics. These things depend on training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every...
...partially on one side so that they slipped readily into what was known as a "wing slip," and fatal accidents resulted from such causes. In other words, when the aviator was unable to orient himself in relation to the horizon by use of the visual sense, he could not depend for maintaining his balance on the knowledge coming to his brain from the semicircular canals alone...
...large numbers of starving Indians to Christianity they are saving only bodies? Such "relief work" in the famine stricken areas of that poor country is undoubtedly commendable. As long as India is politically in bondage and hence unable to handle her problems of artificial famines, she will have to depend upon the generosity of other nations to protect her millions from starvation. No educated Indian could be or would be opposed to such relief work if only it were done straightforwardly and not with the underhanded motive of numerical increase in the population of Christianity...