Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death is the friend of fame. Its enemies are records and people with good memories, for legends depend on lack of evidence. Because she has become a legend in her own lifetime, Mary Pickford feels these truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long...
...hardshell preacher, a drop of Negro blood, no matter how diluted, makes a person a Negro. Vainly the patrician doctor explains that Ruth's father and grandfather were considered -white, that Ruth never knew she was a hybrid, a "brass ankle." But good-natured, inarticulate Larry has nothing to depend on but the cruelty of his neighbors...
...help and sympathy were forth-coming from across the waters and immediately German business rallied. The industrial power of the German nation was rebuilt and the country was aided in regaining its sense of pride. The third period is still in evolution but the progress made in it will depend to a great extent on American interest, as already stated...
...rapidly, but not in proportion to the cost of living at Harvard, which has more than doubled within ten years. Students of slight means are often forced to spend so much time in earning part of their expenses that they lose the high scholastic standing on which their scholarships depend. What is equally important, even if capable of maintaining their place in the Rank List, these men are deprived, through limitations on their time, of many of the advantages of college life...
...relations between France and Germany. The struggle which has never been long dormant since the Treaty of Verdun in 1843 has manifested itself again in general suspicion and some show of hostility since the proposed Austro-German customs union was announced. On the issue of the present crisis will depend the Briand Pan-European Plan, and perhaps indirectly, the peace of Europe...