Word: depending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...factory the beginning of this year (TIME, Jan. 31). Work people moved away; storekeepers were obliged to cease business; the New England Public Service Co., which supplied all three groups?factory, employes and purveyors?with electricity, lost customers. The situation showed sharply how all factors in a community depend upon one another...
...last week, claimed Inventor David Machlett, 26, of Long Island City, N.Y., Cornell graduate (1922). His device consists essentially in a hairpin-shaped vacuum tube, filled with neon gas, and having caesium reflectors. The fog-piercing properties depend on the fact that the light has an extremely long wave length...
...American Jews are complacent and well-fed. And in all general Jewish questions they imagine that they need nothing at all, that their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...
...about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...
...Whether the University can make exceptions in such cases as these of not will depend largely on the number of students who decide to eat in the dining hall. If enough of them eat there regularly and the establishment gets under way successfully, it will undoubtedly be possible to provide for those who wish to eat there only part of the time...