Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copeland instructor must go elsewhere after his appointment is completed. As a result, other colleges have represented on their faculties such outstanding men of letters as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration and advice such men could offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more men of the calibre of Auden or Tate, the University's blindness to the invaluable services which such men could render...
When Hawaii's 33 plantation owners balked, Bridges demonstrated in miniature what organized labor can do to a country's economy.* The continuing maritime strike on the West Coast (in the process of settlement this week) helped his cause. The islands, long a tourist paradise, depend for sustenance on seaborne traffic. Since the shutdown of Pacific shipping seven weeks ago, only three relief ships, sent by the Department of Interior, have reached Hawaii with vitally needed food...
...Goldovsky brought to Boston last week a new musical idea which may fill one of the city's most acute artistic acute artistic vacuums. Boston, like every other city in the United States but New York, has no worth-while grand opera of its own and is forced to depend on annual visits by the Metropolitan for whatever operatic experience it gets. If Goldovsky's latest project is carried on and improved, however, from last week's excellent starting point, this sorry tradition should evaporate quickly...
...phenomenon, it is nevertheless true that under the impetus of the war-born Bill of Rights higher education in America has for the first time become genuinely democratic. For one single, brief instant of our history, the chance at a Harvard or a Yale education has suddenly ceased to depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names are not Anglo-Saxon...
Asking that progressives stand firm and "look to the next swing," James Loeb, national director of the Union for Democratic Action, told the Executive Committee of the Liberal Union last night that "while the present reaction was inevitable, its intensity and its duration depend on how well we prepare ourselves both programatically and organizationally to stop the sweep...