Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raids. "Pretty soon we may call out some of you fellows as volunteers," he said somewhat doubtfully. "We'll need about four hundred ready to work on the College buildings in case of a bombing." Turning towards a cigar-smoking clerk, he added: "That is, if we can depend on 'em. They think everything's a big joke. Why, we had to send a ladder truck down last spring to get a Lampoon man off the roof of his own building." But feeling in the delta of Cambridge Street and Broadway is friendly to the Harvards. "They don't give...
Today octane rating may depend on the presence of any or all of these substances, and there can be several formulas for gasoline of any given rating. Power output increases much faster than octane rating (see graph). So the octane limit seems to be 129, where power theoretically becomes infinite...
...fate of Russia appeared to depend on the U.S. keeping open the supply line to Vladivostok. If Russia capitulated or went down in defeat, Hitler would reach the borders of China; Japan, the shores of Siberia; and the Axis would be in a position to seize Africa (see p. jo). Nobody was clairvoyant enough to visualize all the possibilities, but one thing was clear. The U.S. could not make separate decisions in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The war in the East and the war in the West were one. It was now plain that the U.S. could count...
...Though prairie schooners no longer cross that formidable State, it is still for many miles as empty and lonely as the sea, and as barren of telephone poles. The man at the Indian agency was receiving a kind of shore-to-ship communication on which 5,000 ranch families depend...
Chief among these are the goalie Doug Thompson and center half Adam Foster. Thompson, a lanky, agile ball handler, gained his experience guarding the Exeter nets last year. Foster, who with three tallies stands as highest scorer of the moment, is a big, cool-headed player whom Polly can depend on to keep the team settled down...