Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece of this kind comes when the hero, trying to explain to his girl that he is not really a famed mining engineer traveling incognito but just a country boy in his first golf trousers, is always interrupted and has to keep his secret. Jack Oakie does not depend on stock laughs. He makes them bearable but is really funny only when he improvises. The picture, most of which takes place on a steamer going to Macedonia, lacks the continuous suggestion of laughter that first-rate comedy possesses, but it makes up for dull stretches by moments of hilarity. Typical...
...machine, on the market next week, will doubtless throw scores of color matchers out of work. It will perform their function with more exactness, will cost less and, biggest advantage of all, it will not depend on daylight for its accuracy. The heart of the machine, invented by New York University's able young physicist Dr. Harold Horton Sheldon, is a photoelectric cell...
...Dodge complained, said M. Poiret, that the Customs officials showed her photostatic copies of pages from the Poiret ledger, thus forcing her to agree with their view that she had bought a great many Poiret gowns she had no recollection of buying. If rich, highly strung clients cannot depend on their dressmakers to guard them from such humiliating mistakes, argued Paris editors last week; if the U. S. Treasury is actually spending millions of francs to corrupt poor Paris clerks, then the Government of France should act to protect the national interest. Roundly M. Poiret swore that there was only...
...this was admittance to college in general and Harvard in particular may depend, not upon the intelligence or preparation of the applicant but in his financial power to lavish expenditure upon the College Widow and its like. That such methods may suttice admission is unfair to candidates without Wall Street backing. It is also unfair to Harvard, in whose Freshman Class the present system places a group of men whose work, or rather lack of it, lowers standards, bother deans, and in general forms an unhappy fringe insecurely perched upon the local scene by the perpetual support of hired outside...
...training rather than mental stimulation, all point to the high school as the logical and only place for elementary instruction. To force the school to recognize this function, Harvard, if it wants tri-lingual graduates, must demand trilingual ability from its candidates for entrance. Admission to Harvard, then, should depend on Latin or Greek and three or four years' work in modern language, or, for an S.B. candidate, on a combination of any two of the four major continental tongues including at least a three years' course in one of them. But as the College Entrance Examination Boards give...