Word: depending
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...University is not a place of professional education. . . . It is very right that there should be public facilities for the study of professions. . . . But these things are no part of what every generation owes to the next, as that on which its civilization and worth will principally depend. . . . Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you will make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians. What professional men should carry away with them from a University, is not professional knowledge, but that which should...
...gets a 72 or a 74 just doesn't reflect his performance, his knowledge, or anything." The new system, however, presents Yale students with one potential problem: in competing for entrance to graduate schools, they will have neither class rankings, nor point averages to present, will have to depend heavily on faculty recommendations and interviews...
...chances of winning pretty much depend on what Tim McLoone, Dick Howe, Bob Stempson and John Heyburn do," McCurdy said Wednesday. "If they finish well--from 10-20--then we're in good shape. But if they get stuck in the pack, we could be in trouble...
Visual Haiku. Signing can be awkward and slow-paced in plays that depend heavily on dialogue, such as Saroyan's The Man with the Heart in the Highlands, which leads off the current show. But the medium is perfectly suited to such stylized theatrical forms as the Kabuki play The Tale of Kasane, which the group performs with the flow and precision of fine ballet. The company's most striking performances are its "recitations" of poetry. Through such simple gestures as twisting her fingers over her heart to show grief, stunning Audree Norton manages to evoke...
Modern cattlemen herd their cattle by helicopter, brand them with dry ice instead of red-hot irons, talk about "gatherings" instead of roundups, depend on a good accountant more than a wise old foreman and, when they fade into the sunset, do so in pickup trucks with their trusty horses comfortably trailered on behind. About the only things old pokes would still recognize about the industry, indeed, are its size and its troubles. Cattle roam no less than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least...