Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small pecan growers pick their own crops whereas big growers depend on nomadic bands who go anutting after the cotton picking season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers...
...Order, which is indispensable to all collective organization, has been spoken of. Democracy is precisely the regime that permits societies to progress in order, since it makes progress depend on the general will and on a more and more enlightened will...
...between Argentina and the U. S. It was between Argentina and Greentree, winner of the U. S. Open Championship, in which the best poloists in the U. S. were distributed among half a dozen teams. Main chance to restore U. S. faith in its poloists seemed last week to depend on whether substitutions-specifically, Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could be made before the next game in the two-out-of-three series. What Argentina's reaction to such a move would be was promptly indicated...
...public opinion more and more. But unless the universities can keep clear of governmental interference and maintain the right to think and speak what they believe regardless of popular prejudice, training men to guide the people will become little more than a mockery. To preserve their vital liberties, universities depend on the support of the press. It is encouraging to find a leader of the newspaper industry awake to the need of guarding academic freedom and dedicating at least one section of the press to the accurate recording, "without fear or favor" of "all the news that...
...Miner Lewis, endorsing the principle of industrial unionism. At that point the delegates abruptly reefed their sails, declined to head into C. I. 0. Likeliest explanation was that A. F. of T., whose members pay a maximum 40? a month dues, cannot afford lobbyists in every State capital, must depend on the A. F. of L.'s regular lobby for legislative representation, must stay in the A. F. of L.'s good graces. Purred Secretary David Pierce: "By staying in the A. 'F. of L. we can make peace between the warring factions...