Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacitive reactance" will always be another way of expressing a hangover. For just as the amount of capacitive reactance depends on the value of capacitance and the frequency, so does the resultant morning-after depend upon the same factors in a similar manner--the only difference being in the former we are discussing electric currents, in the latter liquid currents...
...emergencies, lives depend on their fast reactions. One WAVE, on duty during a thunderstorm, discovered that static was jamming her radio. Quickly she grabbed a pair of code signal lights, blinked directions to two planes approaching from opposite directions, averted a bad tangle...
...spoke at the commencement ceremony of Connecticut College for Women.* Said he: "When the education of youth goes wrong, sooner or later all goes wrong. . . . I believe that in the prevention of World War No. 3 - in keeping faith with the boys who have given their lives - much will depend on just how we handle the German youth immediately following this war. . . . We must not repeat the mistakes made by the Allies after World War I. This time we must see that the defeat of Germany is complete. . . . And we must not again fail the German young people...
...farmer's plight was serious. In some rural areas, over a third of the radios were out of order. Most of them (3,200,000) were battery-operated, and the supply of new batteries was slim. Farmers, who depend upon the radio for most of their world news and market reports, were also being cut off from weather bulletins, the latest Government regulations, other special services. City dwellers were stuck for repair parts, especially tubes, and repair...
...British war energies depend upon the unfailing defense and adequate nourishment of our small island home which lies only 21 miles from German batteries and only a few minutes' flight from their airfields. Great Britain is the advanced fighting base of the United Nations and is still under constant siege and assault by air and sea. . . . If the Nazi villains drop upon us from the skies any night, in raid or heavy attack upon key production centers, you will make it clear to them that they have not alighted in the poultry run, or in the rabbit farm...