Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle with the peasants (70% of the population) will almost certainly come before that, not only because the Communists have to depend on them for food, and hate the feeling of dependence, but also because it is the one class in Poland that has a physical basis for resistance. Shopkeepers can be squeezed, intellectuals intimidated, businessmen nationalized, and factory workers fired-but farmers can hold out longer because they grow their own crops and thus are relatively self-sufficient...
...Greene is right, a cure for cancer may depend on finding the unknown factor that arrests the development of embryonic cells. To prove that there is only a thin dividing line between embryonic tissue and cancer, he treated embryonic tissue with cancer-inducing chemicals and implanted the treated tissue in animals. Result: the animals developed cancers in record time...
...Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...
Wheat: meeting export goals will depend on favorable weather, a conservation program. High production is no undue drain on fertility, but plowing up grazing lands for more acreage seriously increases the dangers of soil erosion...
...danger of war, then, did not depend upon whether the Comintern was hidden or open, whether manners at U.N. were rude or Chesterfieldian. It depended upon whether the part of the world which wanted permanent peace would continue to be 1) "more powerful," and 2) "equally vigilant...