Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound weight event is weak. The track team has been stripped by graduation of almost all its experienced weightmen. Pete Curran and Dwight Black are the men Mikkola will have to depend on to come along. Curran has shown he can throw in the high forties, while Black showed great promise before becoming ineligible after his freshman year. Other possibilities in this event are Dirk Walecka and George Osgoodby...
Behind these players, Wilson has a fast, well-conditioned group of substitutes, many of whom are almost as good as the starters. Their speed and conditioning both showed visibly against M.I.T., which tired after ten minutes of play. Wilson feels that the outcome of basketball games can depend on condition, which he has emphasized strongly in the first four weeks of practice...
...practice is to develop available material and to find out what is most promising on the freshman squad. This means that at schools where professionalism is a problem, spring practice will be fairly superfluous since the material is pretty slick to begin with. Meanwhile colleges such as Harvard, which depend on developing unpolished material to attain even respectability, will lose the advantages springtime drill has to offer...
Fortunately, Top Banana does not depend on the usual musicomedy assets. Its music is discreetly commonplace; its love story classically dull. And no doubt, limelight-hogging Jerry Biffle saw to it that the sets, the costumes, the chorines should have no distracting charms. Top Banana is a musicomedy that owes its liveliness to TV, its laughs to burlesque, its success to indefatigable Phil Silvers...
...shaves himself with a steel blade, has breakfast cooked on a steel range, rides to work in a steel bus or car, works in a building whose entire skeleton is steel. Virtually every U.S. product is made of steel or from steel machinery, and 40% of all U.S. jobs depend upon steel and its users. Steel is the foundation of all U.S. military power, real and in the making. In this age of mechanized warfare, it is no longer the biggest number of troops that determines victory; it is, in the final analysis, the biggest number of blast furnaces. Thus...