Word: depended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared in England, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Opposition and generally accepted as prospective Prime Minister, answered the contentions of Mr. Asquith. Said he: "Supposing the Liberals were to defeat the Labor Government and that the Government resigned. What would happen I do not know. Everything would depend on the circumstances. The Liberal assumption that the only thing that could happen would be for their leader to be sent for is certainly erroneous...
...called calculus of Ricci and Levi Civita, which formed the mathematical basis for Einstein's general relativity theory. Unfortunately, these theories are so abstruse that only the trained mathematician can penetrate their mysteries. Laymen must take on faith the fact that all branches of modern science depend upon highly complex mathematical tools, as is evidenced by the judgment of the committee on award, which represented several sciences...
Johnson is apparently undismayed by the great start which Coolidge has taken from him. To the less partisan observers it seems that Johnson's chances depend on a "break." What prospects are there of such a break? An issue in Congress may provide it?but that is unpredictable. The only other major possibility now apparent is a soft coal strike next spring. The soft coal miners' wage contract will expire. A strike is likely. On Jan. 22 a convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis will formulate their demands. If there should be a prolonged strike, it might seriously...
...above sealevel, you cease to be anybody's business. Incidentally, you cease to have any business of your own. Therein lies the glorious, soaring futility of art and mountaineering alike. Neither of them have any conceivable relation to life and the practical living thereof. At the same time they depend on the very intensity of life for their chief claim to continued existence...
...What is soon to happen at the Peace Table will depend more upon the fibre of the conquering nations than upon Germany and its beaten vassals. It ought not to be difficult for people who have suffered so much to realize that the lustful spirit now seemingly exorcized from Germany, prevails everywhere more or less and that humanity is to gain nothing lasting by all its sacrifices if, on any pretext, greed, ambition, and injustice are again to be enthroned in other places...