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Word: depending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since when does Democracy depend for its life blood on bribery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1942 | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Since when does Democracy depend on pensioning a Congressman to keep him from doing harm to the country which he had sworn to protect and guide to the best of his ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1942 | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...future of colleges will depend not merely on endowments and the post-war situation, important as these things are, but on their ability to re-discover and re-define their true function and see that it is performed with constantly increasing effectiveness," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASE ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF COLGATE | 2/20/1942 | See Source »

...number of ships under construction will depend on the number of men available for work. Crudely, assuming that the distribution of available workers of different types exactly fitted the relative demands for these types, and assuming ships of uniform type, the number of ships under construction would be arrived at by dividing the number of available workers by the maximum number of workers that can operate on a single ship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/17/1942 | See Source »

...learned that overtone and innuendo sell a lot of papers, that a sex-angle will keep a run-of-the-mill murder story alive for weeks. The right to sensational journalism is indisputable. Newspapers are a business like any other business, and like any other business they depend on public demand. Freedom of the press pre-supposes variety in journalism, and it's the job of the individual to weed the good from the bad. But when the press distorts this freedom by reporting a war effort with the same kind of "color" it applies to Hollywood blurbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press on the Home Front | 2/17/1942 | See Source »

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