Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit, they were assured, was different from all these, because no less a person than President Hoover had dispatched his War Chief to their islands as the eyes & ears of the White House, to see, hear, learn and know all. Upon his report about them, they were told, would depend whether or not they get independence...
...Cornerstones of industry," "protectors of human life" were titles which chemists who attended the 82nd meeting of the American Chemical Society in Buffalo last week applied to themselves. Although their value to life and well-being is incalculable, they could justly figure that eleven billion dollars of industry depend upon their knowledge and activity. The diversity of their work has enforced specializing: agriculture and food chemistry, biology, medicine, cellulose, colloids, dyes, fertilizers, gas and fuel, leather and gelatin, paint and varnish, petroleum, rubber, sugar, water, sewage and sanitation...
...apprehend and appreciate the distinction made as between a black man and ''some CRAZY black man . . . will rape her, kill her, or both." Which distinction, however, I fear the Negro intelligentsia is going to overlook, as its editors upon whom you depend for information about ALL Negroes as "The Negro" begin to strafe TIME for "goin" 'gainst the race" in its comment on the Birmingham assault. They "solve" the race problem for a living; and categoric language means nothing when it will not permit of reasonable race-problem exploitation by them...
...trading post as a refuge from hayfever and a base for fishing. The few Indians and whites in the neighborhood have found in him their patron in sickness and want. Serious want comes to the Canadian backwoods families about every ten years. The game upon which they depend for food and profit runs through ten-year cycles of alternate scarcity and plenty. It was to help many Canadians besides his neighbors that Mr. Amory played host to the conference...
...here to enforce or to defeat or to humiliate; we are here to understand and to consider our own problems objectively, to remember how closely, in essentials, we depend upon each other. . . . There can be no question about the inherent strength of the German economy provided that it has the capital resources that it requires. . . . But I think our first step is to decide with the greatest possible expedition the means by which this shall be definitely carried into effect. I emphasize: The greatest possible expedition...