Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor should keep systematic records and send bills out on the first of every month. Fees should depend not only on a patient's economic status, but on length of illness, success of treatment (billing is often held up until a doctor is sure), age of patient (since an 80-year-old has not so long to live as a 40-year-old, he should not be charged so much...
...there was to be shipping competition between the U.S. and Britain in the peace. Sir Arthur was not afraid. "The share of the world's shipping business will not depend solely upon the amount of tonnage that happens to be under the flag of the different countries at the time when peace comes. It will depend on the competitive cost of building and the competitive cost of operations as well as on the policy of the different governments with regard to support and subsidy, and the general framework of international trade and agreement in other spheres. That being...
Kesselring had more vital matters to concern him. He could not depend upon the Italians at home or those in the field under General Alfredo Guzzoni, commander in Sicily. On occasion the Italians fought fiercely, gave up only when further combat was hopeless. But when they surrendered, they surrendered in crowds. As in North Africa, Italian soldiers and officers hated the Germans. Soldiers complained that the Germans took all the food; Italian airmen, that the Germans took the good planes and hangars...
...offensive from Britain is speeding the day when the final effort will be certain of success. But the High Commands do not depend on air offensives. Neither the intensification of the air campaign nor the first sea-&-land steps toward Germany's inner fortress will mean that the basic conception has been altered or abandoned. In Ottawa, Commissioner MacDonald presumably had these facts in mind when he said...
Professor Kohn, a visiting lecturer on Government, is an authority on the present world situation and the basis on which an enduring peace must depend. The first of his four talks will begin at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall July...