Word: depending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naval armaments. It must be remembered, however, that the Washington conference attained partial success chiefly because the U. S. was the biggest "giver" in capital ships. At the proposed Geneva conference Great Britain will have to be the biggest "giver" in cruisers. Her future attitude, particularly concerning submarines, will depend on France and Italy...
...There is today," said Professor Hornbeck, "no government of China. Various leaders or groups have control and exercise authority in various parts of China. For authority they depend upon military forces...
Since it has no civic company of its own Boston must of necessity depend on Chicago for the opera season. For two weeks all roads lead to Huntington Avenue and Mary Garden's adventures are bruited about the streets by yodeling news boys. But short though the festival is for residents of Boston it is even shorter for Harvard students. Due to the devious machinations of booking offices the Chicago Company invariably plays in Boston during the hectic Mid year period when students have either turned scholastic recluses or have field homeward for a brief vacation. When they return sent...
...football coach, paid tribute at an alumni dinner to eleven other iron men— the Brown football team that played through the season undefeated.* He derided the idea that he fed his protégés on milk. "Music," he said, "is what makes Iron Men. The players depend on rhythm and morale, and unless you have a singer or two on the squad you have a tough time keeping up the morale. Whenever we were in the train on the way to a game I always made them start a song...
...most hearty contempt not only for the morals and the intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest citizens who would otherwise destroy them...