Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When airplanes follow a great-circle course, they often buck head winds all the way. A longer course to the left or right may give them helpful tail winds. How to find such winds has been the problem. The pilot cannot depend, like a sailing-ship captain, on the average wind directions over long periods of time. He crosses too quickly for that. A strong head wind lasting only a few hours may upset his schedule as much as if it kept blowing for weeks...
Restricted by a lack of funds in many instances, the settlement houses are for the most part unable to hire the bulk of their staff and must depend upon volunteers. Of thirty-five houses in the Greater Boston area, there are twenty-six at the present time with a shortage of personnel and a curtailed program to match. This gap can well be filled in large part by students who can spare two hours weekly...
...little time to get in the groove, and you would be wise to wait until the middle of next week if you want to see it at its best. New musicians, new theater, cuts and revisions, and adjusting timing to the vagaries of Boston audiences can throw musicals, which depend on speed and precision, into a kind of half-hearted tailspin, and "Brigadoon" shows symptoms of such ailments this week...
...nation is hard at work and has already performed 'miracles,' as Mr. LaGuardia has told you. The greatest threat to our future is tuberculosis, which affects 60 percent of our children in the devastated areas . . . With U. N.- R. R. A. and the National War Fund terminating operations, we depend on American Relief for Czechoslovakia to send us milk, fats, medicines, and hospital equipment, which cannot be purchased anywhere in Europe...
...film is full of inspired documentation which is at once more realistic and more poetic than any of Hemingway's. When the Loyalists make their crucial*The other, in Eisenstein's Potemkin (1925). air raid, they have to depend on a peasant who has spotted the hidden airfield near his birthplace. But the peasant has never been in the air before, and cannot read maps. From a new perspective, at a time when every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits...