Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even need medals, though you may use them. And if you are not in God's grace, you are not pleasing to Him . . . though you be wearing more medals than Goring. . . . Wouldn't it be better for many drivers to drive well and carefully and not depend so much on overworked St. Christopher? God still runs His world; it's not run by luck or charms. . . . Wear medals? Sure, but understand them. Put first things first...
Lowell stands first with three victories and a tie followed by Dudley and Winthrop both with three wins and its recent loss to the Ramblers. The most crucial game, the Winthrop-Lowell tilt seems at present to depend on the desires of Uncle...
...stressed, however, that this service would only be available to those men who mailed postcards to PBH addressed: "Contact, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge, Mass.," and giving their addresses. PBH will then be in a position to provide the required information. The success of the plan will of course depend upon the number of men who mail cards...
...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
Taking as its point of departure the Beveridge report (TIME, Dec. 14), the Economist points out what every U.S. businessman knows, namely that social security legislation is meaningless unless it is combined with the maintenance of tolerably full employment. The maintenance of full employment in turn depends on 1) a high level of consumer buying; 2) a high level of investment; 3) a high level of foreign trade upon which will depend the "British standard of living, the level of national prosperity, and the possibility of social security...