Word: dependents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flopping, swishing, blinding, neck-tickling cap-tassel that is meant to depend over the left temple is uniformly black for bachelors and masters, golden for doctors...
...opinions about public matters, but also about what is right, just, honorable and generous in personal conduct. As a rule, indeed, public morals are built upon private morals, and a stable commonwealth does not stand upon an unsound moral foundation. Let us repeat, therefore, that morals, public and private, depend upon opinion. The morality of a people is sustained by a general opinion of its rightfulness, and a general condemnation of its violation. All men sometimes do, and a few men often do what they know to be wrong; but even so they usually try to justify to themselves...
...Krim, leader of the Riffs and once a German agent, had conducted numerous pillaging expeditions in the Wergha Valley in French Morocco, which is the south side of the Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops of the upper Wergha Valley, which was under...
...some times the professor makes one of the students deliver the morning's lecture upon an as- signed topic. We do not have the great number, of tests that you have here, while our examinations cover an entire program instead of a single course. Thus a student's examinations depend upon the program he is pursuing, and if this is one of two year's duration he has no examinations until that date...
...understand it, the promotion of professors and their increases in salary depend not upon their ability to teach men or to inspire them to work, but upon their ability to turn out at stated intervals a book upon some subject pertaining to their field of research: Because of this system there is a double temptation for professors to neglect their students, because it is more interesting to write books and it is also their best means of winning a larger salary. The result is that the student, as a human being, is almost entirely neglected. . . . I believe a professor should...