Word: depended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principles, maxims, and rules of human conduct can be carried ad absurdum. They all have their proper limits, because at some point they come into conflict with other principles not less true and not less limited. A doctor, for example, is sent for by a patient whose life may depend on how soon medical attendance arrives. The doctor's obvious duty is to go as quickly as possible. He goes in his auto at the utmost speed, and in doing so runs over and kills a child. Clearly we must revise the statement of the doctor's duty. He must...
...perhaps the Central American polititians have evolved a new scheme for beating the high cost of living. Professor Taussig tells us that prices depend upon the quantity of money; possibly the government hopes that by establishing a porcelain currency system, then merely sitting still and waiting for the money to break, the amount of money will be so much reduced that prices will fall almost to nothing, everyone will feel happy, and the administration, by claiming the credit, would establish itself in the good graces of the public and for the first time in history be able to complete...
...runners, but had been developed to the point where they were able to score places, under the University coaches. This was one of Coach Bingham's avowed purposes, to develop men who could get the second and third places upon which the results of a meet so often depend...
...rating scale is composed of two parts. The first covers the chief mental and personal qualities upon which business success is considered largely to depend. There are seven of these native ability, personality, industry, reliability, initiative, co-operation, and judgment. Each man will be rated as "exceptional", "good", "average", "weak", or unsatisfactory" in respect to each of these qualities, the rating being done by from three to five members of the faculty with whom he comes in personal contact...
Coach Bingham's task this year was not primarily to win the meets of the season;--it was rather to establish a new system of track which would be self sustaining and which would not depend on preparatory school stars. But in order to attain this purpose it was, to put it paradoxically, of first importance that this particular team he a winner. Success this spring meant and means now that it is gained, that each year more and more new material will be available for track, that each year will be more and more successful. Victory over Princeton...