Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British automakers use TIME pages to tell of the precision and durability of their cars. Swiss watch makers emphasize their tradition of fine craftsmanship. Both these groups also depend on TIME to develop U.S. markets, which help cut down Britain's dollar gap and maintain Switzerland's favorable trade balance. Thus comes a completion of the cycle whereby a nation produces what it knows how to make best and sells to those who need the product most. Advertising's job is to take information about consumer goods and production machinery, around the world if necessary...
...years, Oxford University has come to depend on the solid talents of Professor Arthur Lehman Goodhart. He is a tall, burly man who dresses with a barrister's sobriety (striped pants and black coat) and has a knack for making the most complex legal principle seem simple. When he emerges from his rooms at "Univ" (University College) and strides briskly down "The High" to his lecture hall, a capacity crowd of students is always there to hear...
Their reproductive organs, for instance, are extremely "plastic." Some male lice have their genital openings in their backs; others have them underneath. Some depend on strong antennae for clasping the females. The females also vary, and even a short period of isolation may bring significant changes. Such drifting apart, say the colonel and Theresa, has often created new species of lice...
...taken a long time to realize in practice that the peaceful enjoyment of my rights as an American citizen may depend on similar guarantees for an individual living on the other side of the globe...
Stengel won the game by disobeying orders -but he might just as well have lost it by his action . . . The reason McGraw was so incensed was that although that game was important, even more important was the winning of the pennant . . . And no manager can win if he cannot depend upon his players carrying out the orders given them...