Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Boston has cricket grounds, curling rinks and even a place to practise bowling-on-the-green. The description of the examples of early American architecture in Boston by Robert Peabody Bellows was perhaps the most entertainingly written, but the appeal of the various parts of the book will depend on the individual interests of the reader. That the work has a definitely Harvard flavor can be seen by the fact that of the twenty contributors, twelve have Harvard degrees and five have served on the Harvard faculty...
...Midnight 'any pretense toward dramatic excellence, it would naturally depend on balancing the two similar crimes. But the murder committed by the executed woman is handled with far more clarity than the killing of Miss Watkins' vague boy friend...
...Professor James Ewing of Cornell Medical School, Manhattan, the man who spent ten years writing Neoplastic Diseases, prime textbook on Cancer. What the 54 authorities wrote comprises a compendium of all current knowledge of Cancer, its causes, treatment, prevention. Because Professor Ewing has always taught that the specialists must depend on the family doctor to discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will be republished at the end of this month as a book, Cancer.* Editor of the book is Dr. Frank Earl Adair, 43, Ewing disciple, attending surgeon at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
Whether any of these proposals will reach maturity will depend on the governor's ability to influence and at the same time not to influence and at the same time not to antagonize a legislature whose party affiliations are not his own. If he succeeds in this, he will be generally regarded as a worthy and able governor...
...film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong as the one who gets Jean Arthur in the end. Best shot: an express racing through life-sized valleys and hills to Chicago...