Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes of Franco depend on starving women and children. The British Government is going to help him in this! The greatest maritime nation in the world has run up the white flag...
...play even simple compositions an artist must do more than tootle scales. He has to produce overtones, color, play loud & soft. Violinists depend on "bowing" technique. A flautist depends on "lipping." By shaping his lips differently, altering the quantity and speed of the escaping air, making it strike the mouthpiece at different angles, he can produce ingenious tonal colors, change the volume, manage the most difficult harmonics. The quality of the tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver...
That means sit-downs, stand-ups, walkouts, or stay-ins. It means that ways and means are provided for adjudication of disputes and to settle any controversy. Upon this record you make in your first collective bargaining experiment in the auto industry will undoubtedly depend the future of your union and of collective bargaining in the industry...
...wise, had taken its place among the stage's rarer offerings, was being compared with that other notable maritime drama, Outward Bound. For by the beginning of Act II- when Obediah and his brother look out on benighted, garish Coney Island and pity the people who so desperately depend on such a place for their fleeting, unfufilling recreation-Excursion begins to take on a modest significance. Why not, says Obediah's slightly pixillated Brother Jonathan, take this doomed little ship and her doomed company and sail for southern seas? He has a map of a fine Caribbean island...
...midwestern orchestras, none has risen so rapidly or so recently as the Indianapolis Symphony. Until 1930 Indianapolis had no resident orchestra, had to depend on occasional visits from the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit bands. That year an old violin teacher named Ferdinand Schaefer brought together 60 unemployed musicians to form the co-operative Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Before an average house of 400 they played five times, earned less than $5 apiece for each concert. At the end of the season the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League formed the Indianapolis State Symphony Society as sponsors...