Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week for the past 28 seasons. "I remember the time when if they got more than four hits off Walter Johnson they run up the flag," he declared, somewhat embarrassed at being interviewed. "But the new lively ball has changed all that," he added a bit sadly, "they depend on slugging now instead of playing real baseball...
Harvard is conceded about an even chance to take team honors at the N.C.A.A. events, with Ohio State and Michigan the biggest threats to Crimson supremacy. A lot will depend on the breaks. According to the times both have turned in this season, Hutter and Kendall ought to take between them the two sprints and the two "distance" races. If Captain-elect Rusty Greenhood can come through with a third in the dive to Ohio State's superb artists, Patnik and Patterson, the Crimson's point total will be bolstered. The medley team should place second to Princeton's American...
...General Examinations in May. In the case of a man who has done none of the work required, he is likely to do poorly in these examinations, so poorly in fact that he may have to take the final examination in the course, and his degree will depend on the outcome. Moreover, a student who has completed three and a half years of undergraduate work must be credited with some degree of integrity and good sense; and it is hardly necessary to check up on him with boarding-school vigilance...
...numbers or groups of numbers turn up. The casino managements, serenely confident that the best system ever devised will not prevent the house from getting its inexorable percentage, not only permit their clients to play systems but to take notes on the winning numbers, notes on which the systems depend. This week the Casino at Monte Carlo is even placing at the disposal of its sleek patrons a number of machines, designed by Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein, which will make such note-taking easier...
...Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States will tear up its various interpretations of the flood wave, refuse ever to build for the future, and thereafter depend upon the gods...