Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next night, to the U.S. armed forces, the President broadcast another solemn message: "War must be abolished from the earth if the earth, as we know it, is to remain. Civilization cannot survive another total war. . . . We depend on you, who have known war in all its horror, to keep this nation aware that only through cooperation among all nations can any nation remain wholly secure...
Last week the Generalissimo sent his second telegram of invitation to Mao Tse-tung: "To achieve national reconstruction and reap the fruits of the war of resistance will depend to a great extent upon your coming to Chungking to discuss and jointly formulate our national policies. ... I cannot but feel sorry you are delaying your departure...
...Department early this month, Robert Ulich, professor of Education in the Graduate School, in a recent SERVICE NEWS interview declared himself "highly optimistic about its potentialities." But he hastened to add, "there is ample possibility for the misinterpretation of many of the high sounding generalities. A great deal will depend on the outcome of the next London Conference of Allied Ministers of Education...
...sudden achievement of victory was a mercy, to the Japanese no less than to the United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common man the fire and force...
...surprised at the hue & cry over his latest statement which, he said, was never intended for publication; but he was "not displeased that the problem is now in the open." He still defended his course as the right one for Dartmouth: "Any college of restricted enrollment must depend on quotas in everything-as to East and West, public and private schools, urban and agricultural areas, and racial groups as well...