Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted "technical guilt," was fined $5,000. Thereupon many a Prohibition student wondered how many more U. S. business concerns would have to admit "technical guilt" if like charges were brought against them. Common is the assumption that distributors of malt & hops, makers of bottles, flasks, corks and alcohol depend for much of their trade on individuals and groups who break the Prohibition Amendment...
...judging the intelligence and growth of the student, and they give written examinations a decreasingly important place in education. That is as it should be, for memory is only the ash that is left after enthusiasm and analysis have burned a path into uncharted realms; and written examinations depend too much on the moods of the student and the corrector to be left in college education much longer...
...Observatory, which is estimated to be the greatest collection of photographs of the stars in the world. Although the annex is to be completed in readiness for the opening of college in the fall, no definite date can be set for the completion of the telescope, since it will depend not only upon the time spent on the instrumental itself, but also upon the construction of a small building to protect it from the weather
...that there are few whose intellectual and spiritual velocity still rises at 40, suggests the need of such a gospel, especially in this new era of increased leisure for all. Maeterlinek is quoted as saying that on the way in which these increased hours of freedom are spent may depend the whole destiny of man. And one may not, in the face of the results of Dr. Thorndike's researches into the adult's ability to go on learning, have an excuse for not continuing to learn, even into...
...abandoning the classics requirement for the A.B. degree Yale has made another of those breaks with the past which have gone so far to modify traditional university education in recent years. The move erases an obviously illogical provision which made the attainment of the Bachelor of Arts degree depend on the number of years spent on Latin or Greek regardless of whether a man majored in chemistry or fine arts...