Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major problem in the life of the new paper is finance. As yet no funds except the dollar joining fee have been collected. With the advertising prospects not too good, it will depend largely on voluntary backing for its life. However, with the strength of the groups backing it, it does not seem likely that the paper will be still-born...
Awesome to fellow zanies is Allen's ability to concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs...
Weakened by the loss of four or five regulars of the 1939 campaign, and hampered by a poor turnout so far this year, Dunster's gridders look forward to an unimpressive season. Last year's third place winners will depend largely on George Varn, all-House back, Bill McGinniss, end, and Tom Eliot and Hal Smith, tackles...
...unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so." Returning trainees who are not rehired can appeal to U. S. district courts, get the free services of Federal attorneys. Net effect of this provision: draftees will have to depend more on the prosperity, good will and patriotism of their employers than on the expressed (but weakly implemented) good will of the U. S. Government...
...increased training at Harvard itself is concerned--as distinguished from calling students away to be drafted--this appears to depend on finances. The government has not appropriated additional money nor designated additional officers for the Harvard R. O. T. C. unit, and as a result this unit will probably accommodate about the usual number and no more. Nor is extra-curricular training likely to be instituted, because of opposition to the "green officers and green men" theory...