Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under which teaching ability became the main criterion of promotion in all cases. Is it not possible to differentiate between these members of the Faculty whose main job is research and those whose main job is lecturing and tutoring? Could not promotion in the first group be made to depend on productivity as a scholar and in the second group on success as a teacher...
...appreciation of the situation should certainly not stop 'at mere self-satisfaction with the Association's success in solving immediate problems. The very fact that there was such a close call emphasizes once more the tottery financial foundation of Harvard's whole athletic program, which is forced to depend almost entirely on football receipts, thus necessitating much unfortunate "ballyhooing" and over-emphasis of that sport...
...international exchange last week. In Washington, His Excellency Eric H. Louw, South African Minister Plenipotentiary, hastened to comment, "The situation in South Africa is most paradoxical, the result of an acute political situation. . . . There is some hope that South Africa will soon return to the gold standard. . . . Much will depend upon whether the Government is able to command a majority when Parliament meets." First test of strength was expected to come Jan. 14 at a caucus of the Transvaal Nationalist Party. If Judge Roos captures the caucus from Premier Hertzog, that may start a landslide sweeping the Judge into...
...postpone the conference until March or April is a wise one. While some of the monetary problems are largely non-political in nature, the larger issues at stake, the mitigation of world depression and the termination of virtual economic war, are bound up with national political policies. They depend for their solution upon a cooperative attitude on the part of this country, upon Mr. Roosevelt's sincerity in advocating reciprocal tariffs, and upon a showdown in the present war debt deadlock...
...will. He started with a clean record, free from "sorehead" enemies in his own party or organized opposition from the Republicans. The country seemed ready and waiting for him to lead. Never before were the possibilities better for a Democratic Administration to get things done. The result seemed to depend upon the brand of statesmanship to be furnished by the new President. From him and his party what could the country expect...