Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maturity of their own; and mythology, superstition, magic, from the childhood of culture, may still live with accumulated sophistication as an unrealized phantom in our modern civilization. If can scarcely be denied that here is a fascinating realm for exploration. The ultimate value of the Surrealiste painter does not depend upon what you may think of his subject matter but in the last analysis depends upon the quality of his execution...
...cannot be emphasized too strongly that no man should depend solely upon the Student Employment Office for a job. Students who need summer work should try to find it themselves, independently of any employment office. Business men place a premium upon individual initiative...
...structures. It is a well known fact that the standards of secondary school vary greatly and these recommendations will vary accordingly. In other words, there will be no way of knowing accurately just what preliminary training a prospective entrant has had. The Chicago plan, by its very freedom, must depend for success on the soundness of training which a man has acquired before he undertakes to educate him self. The best standard by which this training can be gauged it some system of entrance examination, and it is this very standard which the university has seen fit to abolish. Daily...
...condition in which he is fit to undertake the organization of a campaign to sell stock in a company for making rubber out of sewage. Vastly successful at this enterprise, he is presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed by the incompetence of his staff, a fat Hebrew whom he names Col. Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe...
...Philadelphia, and Alwin J. Scheuer of New York, who ran the price to $52,000, Gabriel Wells, Manhattan collector and dealer whose Americana is one of the most important in the U. S., bought it for $53,000. Said he: "That will go directly into my safe. You can depend on that...