Word: depending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle, however, does not depend upon agreement. It depends upon the theory that whether beliefs concur supplement, or conflict, they are all of value if put fairly forward: that belief disdained and flouted becomes antagonistic and destructive: that belief listened to tends to become considered and responsible...
...would seek a meeting of the whole committee before answering categorically. Others point to the traditional value of the rule. One remarks that parliamentary usage often sanctions the two-thirds requirement on motions of importance. It is remarkable that the first objection is equivocal and that the last two depend for their effect on doubtful matters of degree...
...reminded that politics bear little relation to scholarship, that the men who urge it are seldom scholars, and that the people on whom they depend are much less so. Political agitation, manoeuvering, and conviction depend largely upon impression. Sometimes in the higher reaches of legislative or executive activity, a particular politician acquires personal prestige enough to translate a careful program into law. But in such things as managing a national convention, one must look out for the careless prejudices of the nation at large...
Both Tiger and Blue crews have lost to the strong M. I. T. lightweights, who are now waiting for their final test with the Crimson next Saturday. The University's chances for success against Tech and in the American Henley a week later seem to depend on the ability of the 150-pounders to distance their rivals this afternoon...
...their realism. The direction, that of Millard Webb, is not at all in evidence, which after all is the highest praise that can be accorded. The acting throughout is admirable; the Chinamen, cannibals, and maniacs that make up the wild crew of Captain Ceeley's vessel do not depend entirely upon their make-up to show how wild they are; and Dolores Castello is demurely passionate as the heroine a missionary's daughter, and Ahab's betrothed. In one scene, beneath a tropic moon, John Bar more, aided and abetted by Miss Costello--we mention this merely...