Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approach to manned space flight is to put a man in a rocket and depend on a parachute or other drag-making device to ease him back to earth. Another approach is to fit a piloted airplane with rocket motors powerful enough to toss it out of the atmosphere. It will have wings of a sort for gliding, and the pilot will land it like a conventional but extra-hot airplane...
...great extent, the Crimson's success will depend on its ability to block out Fulcomer and Belz under the offensive backboard. On defense the Tigers play a man-to-man, which means that Fulcomer will probably cover Bryant Danner, whose rebounding has been spotty this season...
...ability to pull an oar. In the balmy Adriatic summer the test comes rarely. But in winter, the cold bora wind sweeps down from the mountains, battering the little fishing boats with gusts that reach 120 m.p.h., and the lives of the whole crew depend on their oars...
...malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor...
...convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers that computing machines probably make less than one mistake in transferring 10²° (100 billion billion) digits. Humans make one mistake in transferring only 200 digits. So the machine's accurate figuring often goes for nothing because it must depend for care and feeding on error-prone humans...