Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Machines. Just before he left Mexico City last week, Ambassador Morrow delivered a farewell address in which he said: "It is too often assumed that scientific inventions prevent misunderstanding. Machines, however, do not understand each other. Man may make a perfect machine but it will still depend upon man himself whether the machine shall be an instrument of understanding or misunderstanding...
...Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce called in William Patterson MacCracken Jr., chairman of its legal committee, demanded a hearing before the board. There was talk of a test case in court. Manufacturers?particularly of seaplanes and amphibians?were incredulous. Their whole appeal to the private flyer, upon whom they depend for much of their business, is based on the inducement of flying between city and vacation camp where lakes furnish easy, safe landing places without cost. Such lakes abound in New Jersey...
...Cambridge attitude was never better expressed than in William J. Bingham's remarks to the freshman class a night or two ago. 'During the year," the director of athletics said, "we shall engage in no less than 375 intercollegiate games. The prestige of the college does not depend on any of these contests...No one will accuse you of having 'poor spirit' if you prefer to spend Saturday afternoon at the library rather than to attend a football game. No coach will urge you to play any game for the glory of dear old Harvard...
...Government of India has arrested and imprisoned Gandhi for criminal breeches of law. They now permit him to hold cabinet councils with his fellow conspirators in jail, while the great governing organism, upon whose calm strength the lives and livelihood of uncounted millions depend, wait cap in hand outside the cell door, hoping to wheedle a few kind words out of their prisoner...
...discriminates against the deaf, that employers have found that accidents are rare among deaf workers because they are exceptionally careful. A recent Pennsylvania check-up of motorists revealed deaf drivers are best. Only Ohio, North Carolina and Minnesota have public employment bureaus for the deaf. Elsewhere the afflicted must depend on their own initiative...